JOHN  HEW  NASH  LIBRARY 

<8>  SAN  FRANCISCO  <$> 

PRESENTED  TO  THE 

UNIVERSITY  OF  CALIFORNIA 

ROBERT  GORDON  SPROUL,  PRESIDENT. 
<§>    BY~  *> 

MR.ANDMRS.MILTON  S.RAV 

CECILY,  VIRGINIA  AND  ROSALYN  RAY 

AND  THE 

RAY  OIL  BURNEKCDMPANY 

SAN  FRANCISCO 
NEW  YORK. 


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SPECIMEN  PAGES 


OF 


PRINTING  TYPES 


FROM 


NORWOOD  MASS. 


IPrinteti  at  the  {Plimpton 
1904 


Copyright  1904  by  The  Plimpton  Press 


INTRODUCTORY 

THIS  pamphlet  of  specimen  pages  of 
printing  types  is  intended  to  show  in 
a  full  series  of  sizes  the  various  faces  in  use 
at  The  Plimpton  Press.  The  different  pages 
of  book  faces  have  been  made  up,  approxi- 
mately, to  book  size,  solid  and  two-point 
leaded,  displaying  to  a  certain  extent  the 
effectiveness  of  the  type  for  book  purposes. 
The  number  of  lines  and  words  to  the  page  is 
given  in  each  specimen,  so  that  word  averages 
for  any  size  page  may  be  closely  estimated. 

We  have  selected  these  book  faces  for  our 
general  book  work,  believing  that  in  both  the 
old  style  and  modern  letters  we  have  chosen 
types  that  are  readable  and  at  the  same  time 
artistic  in  their  design. 

The  specimens  of  faces  larger  than  twelve- 
point  include  all  of  the  old  styles  and  mod- 
ern Romans,  Gothics,  and  job  letters  used 

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so  advantageously  in   book   and   publishers' 
printing. 

In  addition  to  these  type  faces  we  have  a 
very  complete  assortment  of  initials,  head  and 
tail  pieces  and  decorative  ornaments,  each  in 
the  complete  font  or  series. 


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INDEX 


No.  31,  6-pt.  solid     .     . 
Leaded  

10 
11 

10-pt.  Elzevir  (2)  leaded    .         43 
No.  26,  9-pt.  with  No.  31 

No.  31,  8-pt.  solid     .      . 
Leaded 

13 

10-pt.  solid     ...         44 
Leaded                                   45 

No.  31,  10-pt.  solid    .      . 
Leaded 

14 
15 

8-pt.  Antique  O.  S.  solid  .         46 
Leaded  47 

No.  31,  11-pt.  solid    .      . 
Leaded                    .      . 

16 
17 

10-pt.  Antique  O.  S.  solid        48 
Leaded                                   49 

No.  31,  12-pt.  solid    .      . 
Leaded  
8-pt.  Caslon  O.  S.  solid  . 
Leaded  

18 
19 
20 
21 

12-pt.  Antique  O.  S.  solid        50 
Leaded  51 
10-pt.  Cheltenham,  solid           52 
Leaded  53 

10-pt.  Caslon  O.  S.  solid 
Leaded  

22 
23 

11-pt.  Cheltenham,  solid        54 
Leaded  55 

11-pt.  Caslon  O.  S.  solid 
Leaded 

24 
25 

12-pt.  Cheltenham,  solid        56 
Leaded  57 

12-pt.  Caslon  O.  S.  solid 
Leaded  
14-pt.  Caslon  O.  S.  solid 
Leaded  ..... 
18-pt.  Caslon  O.  S.  solid 
Leaded  
8-pt.  Edinburgh,  solid 
Leaded         .... 

26 
27 
28 
29 
30 
31 
32 
33 

Caslon  Series  ....  58-60 
18-pt.  Satanic  ....         60 
10-pt.  Priory  Text      .      .         60 
Caslon  Text  Series     .      .         61 
Cheltenham  Series      .      .   62-64 
9-pt.  No.  26    .      .      .      .         64 
6-pt.  Lining  Gothic    .      .         64 
6-pt.  Inclined  Antique              64 

10-pt.  Edinburgh,  solid    . 
Leaded  
11-pt.  Edinburgh,  solid    . 
Leaded  
12-pt.  Edinburgh,  solid    . 
Leaded 

34 
35 
36 
37 
38 
39 

9-pt.  Cushing  O.  S.   .      .         64 
10-pt.  Jensen  ....         64 
Winchell  Series     .      .      .65,  66 
Antique  O.  S.  Series        .         66 
12-pt.     Standard     Type- 
writer                                   67 

10-pt.  Elzevir  (1)  solid     . 
Leaded         .... 

40 
41 

Caslon  Old  Style  Initials      68,69 
Missal  Initials                           69 

10-pt.  Elzevir  (2)  solid     . 

42 

Type  Borders  and  Bands     70-72 

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choose,  but  moving  steadily,  and  that  not  by  the  shaping  of  circumstances,  but  by 
the  guiding  of  the  Holy  Ghost,  toward  that  form  and  character  which,  having  once 
taken  on,  it  has  now  retained,  whatever  temporary  obscuration  of  its  primitive  char- 
acter or  degradation  of  its  high  purpose  may  have  befallen  it,  for  well-nigh  twenty 
centuries. 

And  therefore  we  are  here  to  disown  the  theory  that  the  organic  form  of  Chris- 
tianity, as  the  Catholic  Church  holds  it  and  has  perpetuated  it,  is  merely  the  develop- 
ment and  outcome  of  civil  and  secular  institutions,  amid  which  it  originally  found 
itself,  any  more  than  the  Atonement  on  Calvary  was  the  outcome  of  the  Platonic  or 
Aristotelian  philosophies.  Points  of  resemblance,  points  of  contact,  points  of  iden- 
tity, even,  we  may  own,  here  and  there,  it  may  be,  in  the  one  as  in  the  others;  but  we 
are  here  to-day,  if  I  at  all  understand  the  purpose  of  our  coming,  to  affirm  that  yonder 
volume  does  not  more  truly  declare  to  us  the  means  of  our  salvation  than  it  declares 
and  defines  that  one  preeminent  agency,  the  CHURCH  OF  THE  LIVING  GOD,  with  its 
inspired  message  and  its  divinely  instituted  sacraments,  and  divinely  appointed 
threefold  ministry,  as  the  visible  agency  and  instrument  by  which  that  salvation  is 
to  be  made  known  to  men. 

And  here,  at  any  rate,  whatever  may  be  proper  elsewhere,  we  are  not  called  upon 
to  go  beyond  this.  How  truly  a  human  body  may  be  so  designated  which  is  more 
or  less  maimed  or  mutilated  is  a  question  which  theology  may  not  find  it  easier  to 
answer  in  one  domain  than  science  in  another.  But  in  an  age  when  there  is  so  much 
invertebrate  belief,  and  when  the  tone  of  mutual  complacency  is  so  great  that  one 
man's  deliro  (I  dream)  is  as  good  as  another  man's  credo  (I  believe),  it  is  as  well  in 
connection  with  such  an  occasion  as  this  to  understand  the  ground  upon  which  we 
stand,  and  the  point  from  which  we  set  out.  The  cause  of  the  reunion  of  Christen- 
dom will  be  greatly  forwarded  by  the  kindly  temper  which  strives  to  understand,  and 
scorns  to  misrepresent  others;  but  it  will  not  be  helped  by  the  mistaken  amiability 
which  seeks  to  misinterpret  or  consents  to  misrepresent  ourselves. 

I  have  said  this  much,  and  have  endeavored  to  say  it  with  utmost  plainness,  be- 
cause, unless  I  am  mistaken,  the  exigency  of  the  hour  demands  it.  But  I  have  done 
so  mainly  because  it  opens  the  way  to  that  larger  view  of  our  text  and  of  this  occasion 
to  which,  if  possible,  we  should  ascend. 

(a)  For,  first  of  all,  and  plainly  enough,  it  belongs  to  us  to  remember  on  such  an 
occasion  as  this  that  there  is  a  past,  and  that  we  cannot  divorce  ourselves  from  it. 
Interesting  and  impressive  as  even  the  coldest  criticism  would  be  apt  to  own  the 
service  in  which  we  are  now  engaged,  neither  its  impressiveness  nor  its  intrinsic 
appropriateness  is  the  reason  for  our  observance  of  those  solemn  features  which 
compose  it.  We  did  not  originate,  extemporize,  or  invent  them.  Their  claim  upon 
us,  first  of  all,  resides  in  this:  that  they  are  a  part  of  that  venerable  and  scriptural 
inheritance  of  which  God  has  put  us  in  trust.  In  an  age  which,  with  its  smart  scio- 
lism, considers  itself  competent  to  invent  a  method  for  every  emergency,  and  extem- 
porize a  function  for  every  most  august  solemnity,  it  is  enough  for  us  that  we  are 
here  engaged  in  doing  what  "our  fathers  did  aforetime."  That  law  of  historic  con- 
tinuity which  Christ  in  His  earlier  ministry  so  consistently  and  invariably  emphasized, 
from  the  day  when,  at  His  home  in  Nazareth,  He  went  into  the  synagogue  on  the 
Sabbath  day  to  those  closing  hours  when,  on  the  eve  of  His  crucifixion,  He  made 
ready  to  keep  the  Passover  with  His  disciples,  is  still  the  Church's  truest  wisdom,  as 
it  is  daily  coming  more  and  more  plainly  to  be  seen  to  be  an  essential  element  of  her 
inmost  strength.  The  evolution  of  the  Church,  like  the  evolution  of  the  highest 
forms  of  physical  and  intellectual  life,  must  forever  be  along  those  h'nes  which  keep 
her  present  in  close  and  vascular  connection  with  her  past.  No  more  tragic  lesson 
has  been  taught  to  Christendom  than  that  which  salutes  us,  in  this  land  and  age,  in 
the  manifold  and  mutually  destructive  divisions  of  that  Christendom,  as  to  the  folly 
and  madness  of  the  defiance  of  that  law.  We  are  set,  in  a  generation  of  ignorant  and 
audacious  departures  from  primitive  faith  and  practice,  to  say,  and  to  say  it  over  and 
over  again,  "the  old  is  better."  We  are  set  to  affirm  that,  howsoever  it  may  have 
been  caricatured,  overstated,  or  misunderstood,  there  is  a  doctrine  of  Apostolic  suc- 
cession in  teaching,  in  ministry,  in  fellowship,  and  that  we  are  to  guard  it  and  per- 
petuate it.  Preeminent  as  are  the  truths  of  Christ's  personal  relation  to  the  personal 
soul,  we  may  not  forget  that  He  has  chosen  to  reveal  and  proclaim  them  through  an 
agency  which  binds  those  souls  to  one  another  and  to  Him  in  the  great  as  well  as 
"good  estate  of  the  Catholic  Church."  And  this  it  is  our  bounden  duty  to  remember 
and  to  affirm,  not  less  but  more,  because  it  is  to  many  an  unwelcome  and  unnecessary 
affirmation,  and  one  that,  only  late  and  slowly,  men  are  coming  to  own  and  accept. 
But  when  we  have  done  this  duty,  we  are  not  to  leave  the  other  duty  undone,  and 

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6-Pt.  No.  31,  solid]  Qfyt   Plimpton   B5re0!8  [024  words,  65  lines 


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choose,  but  moving  steadily,  and  that  not  by  the  shaping  of  circumstances,  but  by 
the  guiding  of  the  Holy  Ghost,  toward  that  form  and  character  which,  having  once 
taken  on,  it  has  now  retained,  whatever  temporary  obscuration  of  its  primitive  char- 
acter or  degradation  of  its  high  purpose  may  have  befallen  it,  for  well-nigh  twenty 
centuries. 

And  therefore  we  are  here  to  disown  the  theory  that  the  organic  form  of  Chris- 
tianity, as  the  Catholic  Church  holds  it  and  has  perpetuated  it,  is  merely  the  develop- 
ment and  outcome  of  civil  and  secular  institutions,  amid  which  it  originally  found 
itself,  any  more  than  the  Atonement  on  Calvary  was  the  outcome  of  the  Platonic  or 
Aristotelian  philosophies.  Points  of  resemblance,  points  of  contact,  points  of  iden- 
tity, even,  we  may  own,  here  and  there,  it  may  be,  in  the  one  as  in  the  others;  but  we 
are  here  to-day,  if  I  at  all  understand  the  purpose  of  our  coming,  to  affirm  that  yonder 
volume  does  not  more  truly  declare  to  us  the  means  of  our  salvation  than  it  declares 
and  defines  that  one  preeminent  agency,  the  CHURCH  OF  THE  LIVING  GOD,  with  its 
inspired  message  and  its  divinely  instituted  sacraments,  and  divinely  appointed 
threefold  ministry,  as  the  visible  agency  and  instrument  by  which  that  salvation  is 
to  be  made  known  to  men. 

And  here,  at  any  rate,  whatever  may  be  proper  elsewhere,  we  are  not  called  upon 
to  go  beyond  this.  How  truly  a  human  body  may  be  so  designated  which  is  more 
or  less  maimed  or  mutilated  is  a  question  which  theology  may  not  find  it  easier  to 
answer  in  one  domain  than  science  in  another.  But  in  an  age  when  there  is  so  much 
invertebrate  belief,  and  when  the  tone  of  mutual  complacency  is  so  great  that  one 
man's  deliro  (I  dream)  is  as  good  as  another  man's  credo  (I  believe),  it  is  as  well  in 
connection  with  such  an  occasion  as  this  to  understand  the  ground  upon  which  we 
stand,  and  the  point  from  which  we  set  out.  The  cause  of  the  reunion  of  Christen- 
dom will  be  greatly  forwarded  by  the  kindly  temper  which  strives  to  understand,  and 
scorns  to  misrepresent  others;  but  it  will  not  be  helped  by  the  mistaken  amiability 
which  seeks  to  misinterpret  or  consents  to  misrepresent  ourselves. 

I  have  said  this  much,  and  have  endeavored  to  say  it  with  utmost  plainness,  be- 
cause, unless  I  am  mistaken,  the  exigency  of  the  hour  demands  it.  But  I  have  done 
so  mainly  because  it  opens  the  way  to  that  larger  view  of  our  text  and  of  this  occasion 
to  which,  if  possible,  we  should  ascend. 

(a)  For,  first  of  all,  and  plainly  enough,  it  belongs  to  us  to  remember  on  such  an 
occasion  as  this  that  there  is  a  past,  and  that  we  cannot  divorce  ourselves  from  it. 
Interesting  and  impressive  as  even  the  coldest  criticism  would  be  apt  to  own  the 
service  in  which  we  are  now  engaged,  neither  its  impressiveness  nor  its  intrinsic 
appropriateness  is  the  reason  for  our  observance  of  those  solemn  features  which 
compose  it.  We  did  not  originate,  extemporize,  or  invent  them.  Their  claim  upon 
us,  first  of  all,  resides  in  this:  that  they  are  a  part  of  that  venerable  and  scriptural 
inheritance  of  which  God  has  put  us  in  trust.  In  an  age  which,  with  its  smart  scio- 
lism, considers  itself  competent  to  invent  a  method  for  every  emergency,  and  extem- 
porize a  function  for  every  most  august  solemnity,  it  is  enough  for  us  that  we  are 
here  engaged  in  doing  what  "our  fathers  did  aforetime."  That  law  of  historic  con- 
tinuity which  Christ  in  His  earlier  ministry  so  consistently  and  invariably  emphasized, 
from  the  day  when,  at  His  home  in  Nazareth,  He  went  into  the  synagogue  on  the 
Sabbath  day  to  those  closing  hours  when,  on  the  eve  of  His  crucifixion,  He  made 
ready  to  keep  the  Passover  with  His  disciples,  is  still  the  Church's  truest  wisdom,  as 
it  is  daily  coming  more  and  more  plainly  to  be  seen  to  be  an  essential  element  of  her 
inmost  strength.  The  evolution  of  the  Church,  like  the  evolution  of  the  highest 


6-Pt.  No.  31,  leaded]  Qfyt  JPIimptOH  ^te0)8  [683  words,  49  lines 


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choose,  but  moving  steadily,  and  that  not  by  the  shaping  of  circum- 
stances, but  by  the  guiding  of  the  Holy  Ghost,  toward  that  form  and 
character  which,  having  once  taken  on,  it  has  now  retained,  what- 
ever temporary  obscuration  of  its  primitive  character  or  degrada- 
tion of  its  high  purpose  may  have  befallen  it,  for  well-nigh  twenty 
centuries. 

And  therefore  we  are  here  to  disown  the  theory  that  the  organic 
form  of  Christianity,  as  the  Catholic  Church  holds  it  and  has  perpet- 
uated it,  is  merely  the  development  and  outcome  of  civil  and  secular 
institutions,  amid  which  it  originally  found  itself,  any  more  than  the 
Atonement  on  Calvary  was  the  outcome  of  the  Platonic  or  Aristotelian 
philosophies.  Points  of  resemblance,  points  of  contact,  points  of 
identity,  even,  we  may  own,  here  and  there,  it  may  be,  in  the  one  as 
in  the  others;  but  we  are  here  to-day,  if  I  at  all  understand  the  pur- 
pose of  our  coming,  to  affirm  that  yonder  volume  does  not  more 
truly  declare  to  us  the  means  of  our  salvation  than  it  declares  and 
defines  that  one  preeminent  agency,  the  CHURCH  OF  THE  LIVING 
GOD,  with  its  inspired  message  and  its  divinely  instituted  sacraments, 
and  divinely  appointed  threefold  ministry,  as  the  visible  agency  and 
instrument  by  which  that  salvation  is  to  be  made  known  to  men. 

And  here,  at  any  rate,  whatever  may  be  proper  elsewhere,  we  are 
not  called  upon  to  go  beyond  this.  How  truly  a  human  body  may 
be  so  designated  which  is  more  or  less  maimed  or  mutilated  is  a 
question  which  theology  may  not  find  it  easier  to  answer  in  one 
domain  than  science  in  another.  But  in  an  age  when  there  is  so 
much  invertebrate  belief,  and  when  the  tone  of  mutual  complacency 
is  so  great  that  one  man's  deliro  (I  dream)  is  as  good  as  another  man's 
credo  (I  believe),  it  is  as  well  in  connection  with  such  an  occasion  as 
this  to  understand  the  ground  upon  which  we  stand,  and  the  point 
from  which  we  set  out.  The  cause  of  the  reunion  of  Christendom 
will  be  greatly  forwarded  by  the  kindly  temper  which  strives  to  un- 
derstand, and  scorns  to  misrepresent  others;  but  it  will  not  be  helped 
by  the  mistaken  amiability  which  seeks  to  misinterpret  or  consents  to 
misrepresent  ourselves. 

I  have  said  this  much,  and  have  endeavored  to  say  it  with  utmost 
plainness,  because,  unless  I  am  mistaken,  the  exigency  of  the  hour 
demands  it.  But  I  have  done  so  mainly  because  it  opens  the  way  to 
that  larger  view  of  our  text  and  of  this  occasion  to  which,  if  possible, 
we  should  ascend. 

For,  first  of  all,  and  plainly  enough,  it  belongs  to  us  to  remember 
on  such  an  occasion  as  this  that  there  is  a  past,  and  that  we  cannot 
divorce  ourselves  from  it.  Interesting  and  impressive  as  even  the 
coldest  criticism  would  be  apt  to  own  the  service  in  which  we  are 
now  engaged,  neither  its  impressiveness  nor  its  intrinsic  appropriate- 
ness is  the  reason  for  our  observance  of  those  solemn  features  which 
compose  it.  We  did  not  originate,  extemporize,  or  invent  them. 
Their  claim  upon  us,  first  of  all,  resides  in  this:  that  they  are  a  part 
of  that  venerable  and  scriptural  inheritance  of  which  God  has  put  us 
in  trust.  In  an  age  which,  with  its  smart  sciolism,  considers  itself 


8-Pt.  No.  31,  solid]  3H>e  ©limpton   ®rej53  [555  words,  49  lines 


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choose,  but  moving  steadily,  and  that  not  by  the  shaping  of  circum- 
stances, but  by  the  guiding  of  the  Holy  Ghost,  toward  that  form  and 
character  which,  having  once  taken  on,  it  has  now  retained,  what- 
ever temporary  obscuration  of  its  primitive  character  or  degrada- 
tion of  its  high  purpose  may  have  befallen  it,  for  well-nigh  twenty 
centuries. 

And  therefore  we  are  here  to  disown  the  theory  that  the  organic 
form  of  Christianity,  as  the  Catholic  Church  holds  it  and  has  perpet- 
uated it,  is  merely  the  development  and  outcome  of  civil  and  secular 
institutions,  amid  which  it  originally  found  itself,  any  more  than  the 
Atonement  on  Calvary  was  the  outcome  of  the  Platonic  or  Aristotelian 
philosophies.  Points  of  resemblance,  points  of  contact,  points  of 
identity,  even,  we  may  own,  here  and  there,  it  may  be,  in  the  one  as 
in  the  others;  but  we  are  here  to-day,  if  I  at  all  understand  the  pur- 
pose of  our  coming,  to  affirm  that  yonder  volume  does  not  more 
truly  declare  to  us  the  means  of  our  salvation  than  it  declares  and 
defines  that  one  preeminent  agency,  the  CHURCH  OF  THE  LIVING 
GOD,  with  its  inspired  message  and  its  divinely  instituted  sacraments, 
and  divinely  appointed  threefold  ministry,  as  the  visible  agency  and 
instrument  by  which  that  salvation  is  to  be  made  known  to  men. 

And  here,  at  any  rate,  whatever  may  be  proper  elsewhere,  we  are 
not  called  upon  to  go  beyond  this.  How  truly  a  human  body  may 
be  so  designated  which  is  more  or  less  maimed  or  mutilated  is  a 
question  which  theology  may  not  find  it  easier  to  answer  in  one 
domain  than  science  in  another.  But  in  an  age  when  there  is  so 
much  invertebrate  belief,  and  when  the  tone  of  mutual  complacency 
is  so  great  that  one  man's  deliro  (I  dream)  is  as  good  as  another  man's 
credo  (I  believe),  it  is  as  well  in  connection  with  such  an  occasion  as 
this  to  understand  the  ground  upon  which  we  stand,  and  the  point 
from  which  we  set  out.  The  cause  of  the  reunion  of  Christendom 
will  be  greatly  forwarded  by  the  kindly  temper  which  strives  to  un- 
derstand, and  scorns  to  misrepresent  others;  but  it  will  not  be  helped 
by  the  mistaken  amiability  which  seeks  to  misinterpret  or  consents  to 
misrepresent  ourselves. 

I  have  said  this  much,  and  have  endeavored  to  say  it  with  utmost 
plainness,  because,  unless  I  am  mistaken,  the  exigency  of  the  hour 
demands  it.  But  I  have  done  so  mainly  because  it  opens  the  way  to 
that  larger  view  of  our  text  and  of  this  occasion  to  which,  if  possible, 
we  should  ascend. 


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choose,  but  moving  steadily,  and  that  not  by  the  shaping  of 
circumstances,  but  by  the  guiding  of  the  Holy  Ghost,  toward 
that  form  and  character  which,  having  once  taken  on,  it  has 
now  retained,  whatever  temporary  obscuration  of  its  primi- 
tive character  or  degradation  of  its  high  purpose  may  have 
befallen  it,  for  well-nigh  twenty  centuries. 

And  therefore  we  are  here  to  disown  the  theory  that  the 
organic  form  of  Christianity,  as  the  Catholic  Church  holds 
it  and  has  perpetuated  it,  is  merely  the  development  and 
outcome  of  civil  and  secular  institutions,  amid  which  it 
originally  found  itself,  any  more  than  the  Atonement  on 
Calvary  was  the  outcome  of  the  Platonic  or  Aristotelian  phi- 
losophies. Points  of  resemblance,  points  of  contact,  points 
of  identity,  even,  we  may  own,  here  and  there,  it  may  be,  in 
the  one  as  in  the  others;  but  we  are  here  to-day,  if  I  at  all 
understand  the  purpose  of  our  coming,  to  affirm  that  yonder 
volume  does  not  more  truly  declare  to  us  the  means  of  our 
salvation  than  it  declares  and  defines  that  one  preeminent 
agency,  the  CHURCH  OF  THE  LIVING  GOD,  with  its  inspired 
message  and  its  divinely  instituted  sacraments,  and  divinely 
appointed  threefold  ministry,  as  the  visible  agency  and  in- 
strument by  which  that  salvation  is  to  be  made  known  to 
men. 

And  here,  at  any  rate,  whatever  may  be  proper  elsewhere, 
we  are  not  called  upon  to  go  beyond  this.  How  truly  a 
human  body  may  be  so  designated  which  is  more  or  less 
maimed  or  mutilated  is  a  question  which  theology  may  not 
find  it  easier  to  answer  in  one  domain  than  science  in  an- 
other. But  in  an  age  when  there  is  so  much  invertebrate 
belief,  and  when  the  tone  of  mutual  complacency  is  so  great 
that  one  man's  deliro  (I  dream)  is  as  good  as  another  man's 
credo  (I  believe),  it  is  as  well  in  connection  with  such  an 
occasion  as  this  to  understand  the  ground  upon  which  we 
stand,  and  the  point  from  which  we  set  out.  The  cause  of 
the  reunion  of  Christendom  will  be  greatly  forwarded  by  the 
kindly  temper  which  strives  to  understand,  and  scorns  to 
misrepresent  others;  but  it  will  not  be  helped  by  the  mis- 
taken amiability  which  seeks  to  misinterpret  or  consents  to 
misrepresent  ourselves. 


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choose,  but  moving  steadily,  and  that  not  by  the  shaping  of 
circumstances,  but  by  the  guiding  of  the  Holy  Ghost,  toward 
that  form  and  character  which,  having  once  taken  on,  it  has 
now  retained,  whatever  temporary  obscuration  of  its  primi- 
tive character  or  degradation  of  its  high  purpose  may  have 
befallen  it,  for  well-nigh  twenty  centuries. 

And  therefore  we  are  here  to  disown  the  theory  that  the 
organic  form  of  Christianity,  as  the  Catholic  Church  holds 
it  and  has  perpetuated  it,  is  merely  the  development  and 
outcome  of  civil  and  secular  institutions,  amid  which  it 
originally  found  itself,  any  more  than  the  Atonement  on 
Calvary  was  the  outcome  of  the  Platonic  or  Aristotelian  phi- 
losophies. Points  of  resemblance,  points  of  contact,  points 
of  identity,  even,  we  may  own,  here  and  there,  it  may  be,  in 
the  one  as  in  the  others;  but  we  are  here  to-day,  if  I  at  all 
understand  the  purpose  of  our  coming,  to  affirm  that  yonder 
volume  does  not  more  truly  declare  to  us  the  means  of  our 
salvation  than  it  declares  and  defines  that  one  preeminent 
agency,  the  CHURCH  OF  THE  LIVING  GOD,  with  its  inspired 
message  and  its  divinely  instituted  sacraments,  and  divinely 
appointed  threefold  ministry,  as  the  visible  agency  and  in- 
strument by  which  that  salvation  is  to  be  made  known  to 
men. 

And  here,  at  any  rate,  whatever  may  be  proper  elsewhere, 
we  are  not  called  upon  to  go  beyond  this.  How  truly  a 
human  body  may  be  so  designated  which  is  more  or  less 
maimed  or  mutilated  is  a  question  which  theology  may  not 
find  it  easier  to  answer  in  one  domain  than  science  in  an- 
other. But  in  an  age  when  there  is  so  much  invertebrate 
belief,  and  when  the  tone  of  mutual  complacency  is  so  great 
that  one  man's  deliro  (I  dream)  is  as  good  as  another  man's 
credo  (I  believe),  it  is  as  well  in  connection  with  such  an 


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choose,  but  moving  steadily,  and  that  not  by  the  shaping 
of  circumstances,  but  by  the  guiding  of  the  Holy  Ghost, 
toward  that  form  and  character  which,  having  once 
taken  on,  it  has  now  retained,  whatever  temporary  ob- 
scuration of  its  primitive  character  or  degradation  of  its 
high  purpose  may  have  befallen  it,  for  well-nigh  twenty 
centuries. 

And  therefore  we  are  here  to  disown  the  theory  that 
the  organic  form  of  Christianity,  as  the  Catholic  Church 
holds  it  and  has  perpetuated  it,  is  merely  the  develop- 
ment and  outcome  of  civil  and  secular  institutions, 
amid  which  it  originally  found  itself,  any  more  than  the 
Atonement  on  Calvary  was  the  outcome  of  the  Platonic 
or  Aristotelian  philosophies.  Points  of  resemblance, 
points  of  contact,  points  of  identity,  even,  we  may  own, 
here  and  there,  it  may  be,  in  the  one  as  in  the  others; 
but  we  are  here  to-day,  if  I  at  all  understand  the  pur- 
pose of  our  coming,  to  affirm  that  yonder  volume  does 
not  more  truly  declare  to  us  the  means  of  our  salvation 
than  it  declares  and  defines  that  one  preeminent  agency, 
the  CHURCH  OF  THE  LIVING  GOD,  with  its  inspired  mes- 
sage and  its  divinely  instituted  sacraments,  and  divinely 
appointed  threefold  ministry,  as  the  visible  agency  and 
instrument  by  which  that  salvation  is  to  be  made  known 
to  men. 

And  here,  at  any  rate,  whatever  may  be  proper  else- 
where, we  are  not  called  upon  to  go  beyond  this.  How 
truly  a  human  body  may  be  so  designated  which  is 
more  or  less  maimed  or  mutilated  is  a  question  which 
theology  may  not  find  it  easier  to  answer  in  one  domain 
than  science  in  another.  But  in  an  age  when  there  is 
so  much  invertebrate  belief,  and  when  the  tone  of  mu- 
tual complacency  is  so  great  that  one  man's  deliro  (I 
dream)  is  as  good  as  another  man's  credo  (I  believe),  it 
is  as  well  in  connection  with  such  an  occasion  as  this  to 

[16] 


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PRINTING  TYPES 

choose,  but  moving  steadily,  and  that  not  by  the  shaping 
of  circumstances,  but  by  the  guiding  of  the  Holy  Ghost, 
toward  that  form  and  character  which,  having  once 
taken  on,  it  has  now  retained,  whatever  temporary  ob- 
scuration of  its  primitive  character  or  degradation  of  its 
high  purpose  may  have  befallen  it,  for  well-nigh  twenty 
centuries. 

And  therefore  we  are  here  to  disown  the  theory  that 
the  organic  form  of  Christianity,  as  the  Catholic  Church 
holds  it  and  has  perpetuated  it,  is  merely  the  develop- 
ment and  outcome  of  civil  and  secular  institutions, 
amid  which  it  originally  found  itself,  any  more  than  the 
Atonement  on  Calvary  was  the  outcome  of  the  Platonic 
or  Aristotelian  philosophies.  Points  of  resemblance, 
points  of  contact,  points  of  identity,  even,  we  may  own, 
here  and  there,  it  may  be,  in  the  one  as  in  the  others; 
but  we  are  here  to-day,  if  I  at  all  understand  the  pur- 
pose of  our  coming,  to  affirm  that  yonder  volume  does 
not  more  truly  declare  to  us  the  means  of  our  salvation 
than  it  declares  and  defines  that  one  preeminent  agency, 
the  CHURCH  OF  THE  LIVING  GOD,  with  its  inspired  mes- 
sage and  its  divinely  instituted  sacraments,  and  divinely 
appointed  threefold  ministry,  as  the  visible  agency  and 
instrument  by  which  that  salvation  is  to  be  made  known 
to  men. 

And  here,  at  any  rate,  whatever  may  be  proper  else- 
where, we  are  not  called  upon  to  go  beyond  this.  How 
truly  a  human  body  may  be  so  designated  which  is 
more  or  less  maimed  or  mutilated  is  a  question  which 
theology  may  not  find  it  easier  to  answer  in  one  domain 

[17] 

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choose,  but  moving  steadily,  and  that  not  by  the 
shaping  of  circumstances,  but  by  the  guiding  of 
the  Holy  Ghost,  toward  that  form  and  character 
which,  having  once  taken  on,  it  has  now  retained, 
whatever  temporary  obscuration  of  its  primitive 
character  or  degradation  of  its  high  purpose  may 
have  befallen  it,  for  well-nigh  twenty  centuries. 

And  therefore  we  are  here  to  disown  the  theory 
that  the  organic  form  of  Christianity,  as  the  Catho- 
lic Church  holds  it  and  has  perpetuated  it,  is 
merely  the  development  and  outcome  of  civil  and 
secular  institutions,  amid  which  it  originally  found 
itself,  any  more  than  the  Atonement  on  Calvary 
was  the  outcome  of  the  Platonic  or  Aristotelian 
philosophies.  Points  of  resemblance,  points  of 
contact,  points  of  identity,  even,  we  may  own, 
here  and  there,  it  may  be,  in  the  one  as  in  the 
others;  but  we  are  here  to-day,  if  I  at  all  under- 
stand the  purpose  of  our  coming,  to  affirm  that 
yonder  volume  does  not  more  truly  declare  to  us 
the  means  of  our  salvation  than  it  declares  and 
defines  that  one  preeminent  agency,  the  CHURCH 
OF  THE  LIVING  GOD,  with  its  inspired  message  and 
its  divinely  instituted  sacraments,  and  divinely 
appointed  threefold  ministry,  as  the  visible  agency 
and  instrument  by  which  that  salvation  is  to  be 
made  known  to  men. 

And  here,  at  any  rate,  whatever  may  be  proper 
elsewhere,  we  are  not  called  upon  to  go  beyond 
this.  How  truly  a  human  body  may  be  so  desig- 
nated which  is  more  or  less  maimed  or  mutilated 
is  a  question  which  theology  may  not  find  it  easier 

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PRINTING  TYPES 

choose,  but  moving  steadily,  and  that  not  by  the 
shaping  of  circumstances,  but  by  the  guiding  of 
the  Holy  Ghost,  toward  that  form  and  character 
which,  having  once  taken  on,  it  has  now  retained, 
whatever  temporary  obscuration  of  its  primitive 
character  or  degradation  of  its  high  purpose  may 
have  befallen  it,  for  well-nigh  twenty  centuries. 

And  therefore  we  are  here  to  disown  the  theory 
that  the  organic  form  of  Christianity,  as  the  Catho- 
lic Church  holds  it  and  has  perpetuated  it,  is 
merely  the  development  and  outcome  of  civil  and 
secular  institutions,  amid  which  it  originally  found 
itself,  any  more  than  the  Atonement  on  Calvary 
was  the  outcome  of  the  Platonic  or  Aristotelian 
philosophies.  Points  of  resemblance,  points  of 
contact,  points  of  identity,  even,  we  may  own, 
here  and  there,  it  may  be,  in  the  one  as  in  the 
others;  but  we  are  here  to-day,  if  I  at  all  under- 
stand the  purpose  of  our  coming,  to  affirm  that 
yonder  volume  does  not  more  truly  declare  to  us 
the  means  of  our  salvation  than  it  declares  and 
defines  that  one  preeminent  agency,  the  CHURCH 
or  THE  LIVING  GOD,  with  its  inspired  message  and 
its  divinely  instituted  sacraments,  and  divinely 
appointed  threefold  ministry,  as  the  visible  agency 
and  instrument  by  which  that  salvation  is  to  be 
made  known  to  men. 

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choose,  but  moving  steadily,  and  that  not  by  the  shaping  of  circumstances,  but 
by  the  guiding  of  the  Holy  Ghost,  toward  that  form  and  character  which,  having 
once  taken  on,  it  has  now  retained,  whatever  temporary  obscuration  of  its 
primitive  character  or  degradation  of  its  high  purpose  may  have  befallen  it,  for 
well-nigh  twenty  centuries. 

And  therefore  we  are  here  to  disown  the  theory  that  the  organic  form  of 
Christianity,  as  the  Catholic  Church  holds  it  and  has  perpetuated  it,  is  merely 
the  development  and  outcome  of  civil  and  secular  institutions,  amid  which  it 
originally  found  itself,  any  more  than  the  Atonement  on  Calvary  was  the  out- 
come of  the  Platonic  or  Aristotelian  philosophies.  Points  of  resemblance, 
points  of  contact,  points  of  identity,  even,  we  may  own,  here  and  there,  it  may 
be,  in  the  one  as  in  the  others;  but  we  are  here  to-day,  if  I  at  all  understand  the 
purpose  of  our  coming,  to  affirm  that  yonder  volume  does  not  more  truly  declare 
to  us  the  means  of  our  salvation  than  it  declares  and  defines  that  one  preeminent 
agency,  the  CHURCH  OF  THE  LIVING  GOD,  with  its  inspired  message  and  its 
divinely  instituted  sacraments,  and  divinely  appointed  threefold  ministry,  as 
the  visible  agency  and  instrument  by  which  that  salvation  is  to  be  made  known 
to  men. 

And  here,  at  any  rate,  whatever  may  be  proper  elsewhere,  we  are  not  called 
upon  to  go  beyond  this.  How  truly  a  human  body  may  be  so  designated  which 
is  more  or  less  maimed  or  mutilated  is  a  question  which  theology  may  not  find 
it  easier  to  answer  in  one  domain  than  science  in  another.  But  in  an  age  when 
there  is  so  much  invertebrate  belief,  and  when  the  tone  of  mutual  complacency 
is  so  great  that  one  man's  deliro  (I  dream)  is  as  good  as  another's  man  credo 
(I  believe),  it  is  as  well  in  connection  with  such  an  occasion  as  this  to  under- 
stand the  ground  upon  which  we  stand,  and  the  point  from  which  we  set  out. 
The  cause  of  the  reunion  of  Christendom  will  be  greatly  forwarded  by  the 
kindly  temper  which  strives  to  understand,  and  scorns  to  misrepresent  others; 
but  it  will  not  be  helped  by  the  mistaken  amiability  which  seeks  to  misinterpret 
or  consents  to  misrepresent  ourselves. 

I  have  said  this  much,  and  have  endeavored  to  say  it  with  utmost  plainness, 
because,  unless  I  am  mistaken,  the  exigency  of  the  hour  demands  it.  But  I 
have  done  so  mainly  because  it  opens  the  way  to  that  larger  view  of  our  text 
and  of  this  occasion  to  which,  if  possible,  we  should  ascend. 

For,  first  of  all,  and  plainly  enough,  it  belongs  to  us  to  remember  on  such 
an  occasion  as  this  that  there  is  a  past,  and  that  we  cannot  divorce  ourselves 
from  it.  Interesting  and  impressive  as  even  the  coldest  criticism  would  be  apt 
to  own  the  service  in  which  we  are  now  engaged,  neither  its  impressiveness  nor 
its  intrinsic  appropriateness  is  the  reason  for  our  observance  of  those  solemn 
features  which  compose  it.  We  did  not  originate,  extemporize,  or  invent  them. 
Their  claim  upon  us,  first  of  all,  resides  in  this:  that  they  are  a  part  of  that 
venerable  and  scriptural  inheritance  of  which  God  has  put  us  in  trust.  In  an 
age  which,  with  its  smart  sciolism,  considers  itself  competent  to  invent  a  method 
for  every  emergency,  and  extemporize  a  function  for  every  most  august  solem- 
nity, it  is  enough  for  us  that  we  are  here  engaged  in  doing  what  "our  fathers 
did  aforetime."  That  law  of  historic  continuity  which  Christ  in  His  earlier 
ministry  so  consistently  and  invariably  emphasized,  from  the  day  when,  at 
His  home  in  Nazareth,  He  went  into  the  synagogue  on  the  Sabbath  day  to 
those  dosing  hours  when,  on  the  eve  of  His  crucifixion,  He  made  ready  to 

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choose,  but  moving  steadily,  and  that  not  by  the  shaping  of  circumstances,  but 
by  the  guiding  of  the  Holy  Ghost,  toward  that  form  and  character  which,  having 
once  taken  on,  it  has  now  retained,  whatever  temporary  obscuration  of  its 
primitive  character  or  degradation  of  its  high  purpose  may  have  befallen  it,  for 
well-nigh  twenty  centuries. 

And  therefore  we  are  here  to  disown  the  theory  that  the  organic  form  of 
Christianity,  as  the  Catholic  Church  holds  it  and  has  perpetuated  it,  is  merely 
the  development  and  outcome  of  civil  and  secular  institutions,  amid  which  it 
originally  found  itself,  any  more  than  the  Atonement  on  Calvary  was  the  out- 
come of  the  Platonic  or  Aristotelian  philosophies.  Points  of  resemblance, 
points  of  contact,  points  of  identity,  even,  we  may  own,  here  and  there,  it  may 
be,  in  the  one  as  in  the  others;  but  we  are  here  to-day,  if  I  at  all  understand  the 
purpose  of  our  coming,  to  affirm  that  yonder  volume  does  not  more  truly  declare 
to  us  the  means  of  our  salvation  than  it  declares  and  defines  that  one  preeminent 
agency,  the  CHURCH  OF  THE  LIVING  GOD,  with  its  inspired  message  and  its 
divinely  instituted  sacraments,  and  divinely  appointed  threefold  ministry,  as 
the  visible  agency  and  instrument  by  which  that  salvation  is  to  be  made  known 
to  men. 

And  here,  at  any  rate,  whatever  may  be  proper  elsewhere,  we  are  not  called 
upon  to  go  beyond  this.  How  truly  a  human  body  may  be  so  designated  which 
is  more  or  less  maimed  or  mutilated  is  a  question  which  theology  may  not  find 
it  easier  to  answer  in  one  domain  than  science  in  another.  But  in  an  age  when 
there  is  so  much  invertebrate  belief,  and  when  the  tone  of  mutual  complacency 
is  so  great  that  one  man's  deliro  (I  dream)  is  as  good  as  another's  man  credo 
(I  believe),  it  is  as  well  in  connection  with  such  an  occasion  as  this  to  under- 
stand the  ground  upon  which  we  stand,  and  the  point  from  which  we  set  out. 
The  cause  of  the  reunion  of  Christendom  will  be  greatly  forwarded  by  the 
kindly  temper  which  strives  to  understand,  and  scorns  to  misrepresent  others; 
but  it  will  not  be  helped  by  the  mistaken  amiability  which  seeks  to  misinterpret 
or  consents  to  misrepresent  ourselves. 

I  have  said  this  much,  and  have  endeavored  to  say  it  with  utmost  plainness, 
because,  unless  I  am  mistaken,  the  exigency  of  the  hour  demands  it.  But  I 
have  done  so  mainly  because  it  opens  the  way  to  that  larger  view  of  our  text 
and  of  this  occasion  to  which,  if  possible,  we  should  ascend. 

For,  first  of  all,  and  plainly  enough,  it  belongs  to  us  to  remember  on  such 
an  occasion  as  this  that  there  is  a  past,  and  that  we  cannot  divorce  ourselves 
from  it.  Interesting  and  impressive  as  even  the  coldest  criticism  would  be  apt 
to  own  the  service  in  which  we  are  now  engaged,  neither  its  impressiveness  nor 
its  intrinsic  appropriateness  is  the  reason  for  our  observance  of  those  solemn 

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PRINTING  TYPES 

choose,  but  moving  steadily,  and  that  not  by  the  shaping  of 
circumstances,  but  by  the  guiding  of  the  Holy  Ghost,  toward 
that  form  and  character  which,  having  once  taken  on,  it  has 
now  retained,  whatever  temporary  obscuration  of  its  primitive 
character  or  degradation  of  its  high  purpose  may  have  befallen 
it,  for  well-nigh  twenty  centuries. 

And  therefore  we  are  here  to  disown  the  theory  that  the  or- 
ganic form  of  Christianity,  as  the  Catholic  Church  holds  it  and 
has  perpetuated  it,  is  merely  the  development  and  outcome  of 
civil  and  secular  institutions,  amid  which  it  originally  found 
itself,  any  more  than  the  Atonement  on  Calvary  was  the  out- 
come of  the  Platonic  or  Aristotelian  philosophies.  Points  of 
resemblance,  points  of  contact,  points  of  identity,  even,  we  may 
own,  here  and  there,  it  may  be,  in  the  one  as  in  the  others; 
but  we  are  here  to-day,  if  I  at  all  understand  the  purpose  of 
our  coming,  to  affirm  that  yonder  volume  does  not  more  truly 
declare  to  us  the  means  of  our  salvation  than  it  declares  and 
defines  that  one  preeminent  agency,  the  CHURCH  OF  THE  LIV- 
ING GOD,  with  its  inspired  message  and  its  divinely  instituted 
sacraments,  and  divinely  appointed  threefold  ministry,  as  the 
visible  agency  and  instrument  by  which  that  salvation  is  to  be 
made  known  to  men. 

And  here,  at  any  rate,  whatever  may  be  proper  elsewhere,  we 
are  not  called  upon  to  go  beyond  this.  How  truly  a  human 
body  may  be  so  designated  which  is  more  or  less  maimed  or 
mutilated  is  a  question  which  theology  may  not  find  it  easier  to 
answer  in  one  domain  than  science  in  another.  But  in  an  age 
when  there  is  so  much  invertebrate  belief,  and  when  the  tone 
of  mutual  complacency  is  so  great  that  one  man's  deliro  (I 
dream)  is  as  good  as  another  man's  credo  (I  believe),  it  is  as 
well  in  connection  with  such  an  occasion  as  this  to  understand 
the  ground  upon  which  we  stand,  and  the  point  from  which  we 
set  out.  The  cause  of  the  reunion  of  Christendom  will  be 
greatly  forwarded  by  the  kindly  temper  which  strives  to  under- 
stand, and  scorns  to  misrepresent  others;  but  it  will  not  be 
helped  by  the  mistaken  amiability  which  seeks  to  misinterpret 
or  consents  to  misrepresent  ourselves. 

I  have  said  this  much,  and  have  endeavored  to  say  it  with 
utmost  plainness,  because,  unless  I  am  mistaken,  the  exigency 

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choose,  but  moving  steadily,  and  that  not  by  the  shaping  of 
circumstances,  but  by  the  guiding  of  the  Holy  Ghost,  toward 
that  form  and  character  which,  having  once  taken  on,  it  has 
now  retained,  whatever  temporary  obscuration  of  its  primitive 
character  or  degradation  of  its  high  purpose  may  have  befallen 
it,  for  well-nigh  twenty  centuries. 

And  therefore  we  are  here  to  disown  the  theory  that  the  or- 
ganic form  of  Christianity,  as  the  Catholic  Church  holds  it  and 
has  perpetuated  it,  is  merely  the  development  and  outcome  of 
civil  and  secular  institutions,  amid  which  it  originally  found 
itself,  any  more  than  the  Atonement  on  Calvary  was  the  out- 
come of  the  Platonic  or  Aristotelian  philosophies.  Points  of 
resemblance,  points  of  contact,  points  of  identity,  even,  we  may 
own,  here  and  there,  it  may  be,  in  the  one  as  in  the  others; 
but  we  are  here  to-day,  if  I  at  all  understand  the  purpose  of 
our  coming,  to  affirm  that  yonder  volume  does  not  more  truly 
declare  to  us  the  means  of  our  salvation  than  it  declares  and 
defines  that  one  preeminent  agency,  the  CHURCH  OF  THE  LIV- 
ING GOD,  with  its  inspired  message  and  its  divinely  instituted 
sacraments,  and  divinely  appointed  threefold  ministry,  as  the 
visible  agency  and  instrument  by  which  that  salvation  is  to  be 
made  known  to  men. 

And  here,  at  any  rate,  whatever  may  be  proper  elsewhere,  we 
are  not  called  upon  to  go  beyond  this.  How  truly  a  human 
body  may  be  so  designated  which  is  more  or  less  maimed  or 
mutilated  is  a  question  which  theology  may  not  find  it  easier  to 
answer  in  one  domain  than  science  in  another.  But  in  an  age 
when  there  is  so  much  invertebrate  belief,  and  when  the  tone 
of  mutual  complacency  is  so  great  that  one  man's  deliro  (I 
dream)  is  as  good  as  another  man's  credo  (I  believe),  it  is  as 
well  in  connection  with  such  an  occasion  as  this  to  understand 
the  ground  upon  which  we  stand,  and  the  point  from  which  we 
set  out.  The  cause  of  the  reunion  of  Christendom  will  be 


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choose,  but  moving  steadily,  and  that  not  by  the  shaping 
of  circumstances,  but  by  the  guiding  of  the  Holy  Ghost, 
toward  that  form  and  character  which,  having  once 
taken  on,  it  has  now  retained,  whatever  temporary  ob- 
scuration of  its  primitive  character  or  degradation  of  r- 
high  purpose  may  have  befallen  it,  for  well-nigh  tw 
centuries. 

And  therefore  we  are  here  to  disown  the  theory  that 
the  organic  form  of  Christianity,  as  the  Catholic  Church 
holds  it  and  has  perpetuated  it,  is  merely  the  develop- 
ment and  outcome  of  civil  and  secular  institutions,  amid 
which  it  originally  found  itself,  any  more  than  the  Atone- 
ment on  Calvary  was  the  outcome  of  the  Platonic  or 
Aristotelian  philosophies.  Points  of  resemblance,  points 
of  contact,  points  of  identity,  even,  we  may  own,  here  and 
there,  it  may  be,  in  the  one  as  in  the  others;  but  we  are 
here  to-day,  if  I  at  all  understand  the  purpose  of  our 
coming,  to  affirm  that  yonder  volume  does  not  more 
truly  declare  to  us  the  means  of  our  salvation  than  it  de- 
clares and  defines  that  one  preeminent  agency,  the 
CHURCH  OF  THE  LIVING  GOD,  with  its  inspired  message 
and  its  divinely  instituted  sacraments,  and  divinely  ap- 
pointed threefold  ministry,  as  the  visible  agency  and 
instrument  by  which  that  salvation  is  to  be  made  known 
to  men. 

And  here,  at  any  rate,  whatever  may  be  proper  else- 
where, we  are  not  called  upon  to  go  beyond  this.  How 
truly  a  human  body  may  be  so  designated  which  is  more 
or  less  maimed  or  mutilated  is  a  question  which  theology 
may  not  find  it  easier  to  answer  in  one  domain  than 
science  in  another.  But  in  an  age  when  there  is  so  much 
invertebrate  belief,  and  when  the  tone  of  mutual  com- 
placency is  so  great  that  one  man's  deliro  (I  dream)  is  as 
good  as  another  man's  credo  (I  believe),  it  is  as  well  in 
connection  with  such  an  occasion  as  this  to  understand 


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choose,  but  moving  steadily,  and  that  not  by  the  shaping 
of  circumstances,  but  by  the  guiding  of  the  Holy  Ghost, 
toward  that  form  and  character  which,  having  once 
*^ken  on,  it  has  now  retained,  whatever  temporary  ob- 
Mtion  of  its  primitive  character  or  degradation  of  its 
high  purpose  may  have  befallen  it,  for  well-nigh  twenty 
centuries. 

And  therefore  we  are  here  to  disown  the  theory  that 
the  organic  form  of  Christianity,  as  the  Catholic  Church 
holds  it  and  has  perpetuated  it,  is  merely  the  develop- 
ment and  outcome  of  civil  and  secular  institutions,  amid 
which  it  originally  found  itself,  any  more  than  the  Atone- 
ment on  Calvary  was  the  outcome  of  the  Platonic  or 
Aristotelian  philosophies.  Points  of  resemblance,  points 
of  contact,  points  of  identity,  even,  we  may  own,  here  and 
there,  it  may  be,  in  the  one  as  in  the  others;  but  we  are 
here  to-day,  if  I  at  all  understand  the  purpose  of  our 
coming,  to  affirm  that  yonder  volume  does  not  more 
truly  declare  to  us  the  means  of  our  salvation  than  it  de- 
clares and  defines  that  one  preeminent  agency,  the 
CHURCH  OF  THE  LIVING  GOD,  with  its  inspired  message 
and  its  divinely  instituted  sacraments,  and  divinely  ap- 
pointed threefold  ministry,  as  the  visible  agency  and 
instrument  by  which  that  salvation  is  to  be  made  known 
to  men. 

And  here,  at  any  rate,  whatever  may  be  proper  else- 
where, we  are  not  called  upon  to  go  beyond  this.  How 
truly  a  human  body  may  be  so  designated  which  is  more 
or  less  maimed  or  mutilated  is  a  question  which  theology 
may  not  find  it  easier  to  answer  in  one  domain  than 

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choose,  but  moving  steadily,  and  that  not  by  the 
shaping  of  circumstances,  but  by  the  guiding  of 
the  Holy  Ghost,  toward  that  form  and  character 
which,  having  once  taken  on,  it  has  now  retained, 
whatever  temporary  obscuration  of  its  primitive 
character  or  degradation  of  its  high  purpose  may 
have  befallen  it,  for  well-nigh  twenty  centuries. 

And  therefore  we  are  here  to  disown  the  theory 
that  the  organic  form  of  Christianity,  as  the  Catho- 
lic Church  holds  it  and  has  perpetuated  it,  is 
merely  the  development  and  outcome  of  civil  and 
secular  institutions,  amid  which  it  originally  found 
itself,  any  more  than  the  Atonement  on  Calvary 
was  the  outcome  of  the  Platonic  or  Aristotelian 
philosophies.  Points  of  resemblance,  points  of 
contact,  points  of  identity,  even,  we  may  own, 
here  and  there,  it  may  be,  in  the  one  as  in  the 
others;  but  we  are  here  to-day,  if  I  at  all  under- 
stand the  purpose  of  our  coming,  to  affirm  that 
yonder  volume  does  not  more  truly  declare  to  us 
the  means  of  our  salvation  than  it  declares  and 
defines  that  one  preeminent  agency,  the  CHURCH 
OF  THE  LIVING  GOD,  with  its  inspired  message  and 
its  divinely  instituted  sacraments,  and  divinely 
appointed  threefold  ministry,  as  the  visible  agency 
and  instrument  by  which  that  salvation  is  to  be 
made  known  to  men. 

And  here,  at  any  rate,  whatever  may  be  proper 
elsewhere,  we  are  not  called  upon  to  go  beyond 
this.  How  truly  a  human  body  may  be  so  desig- 
nated which  is  more  or  less  maimed  or  mutilated 
is  a  question  which  theology  may  not  find  it  easier 


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choose,  but  moving  steadily,  and  that  not  by  the 
shaping  of  circumstances,  but  by  the  guiding  of 
the  Holy  Ghost,  toward  that  form  and  character 
which,  having  once*taken  on,  it  has  now  retained, 
whatever  temporary  obscuration  of  its  [primitive 
character  or  degradation  of  its  high  purpose  may 
have  befallen  it,  for  well-nigh  twenty  centuries. 

And  therefore  we  are  here  to  disown  the  theory 
that  the  organic  form  of  Christianity,  as  the  Catho- 
lic Church  holds  it  and  has  perpetuated  it,  is 
merely  the  development  and  outcome  of  civil  and 
secular  institutions,  amid  which  it  originally  found 
itself,  any  more  than  the  Atonement  on  Calvary 
was  the  outcome  of  the  Platonic  or  Aristotelian 
philosophies.  Points  of  resemblance,  points  of 
contact,  points  of  identity,  even,  we  may  own, 
here  and  there,  it  may  be,  in  the  one  as  in  the 
others;  but  we  are  here  to-day,  if  I  at  all  under- 
stand the  purpose  of  our  coming,  to  affirm  that 
yonder  volume  does  not  more  truly  declare  to  us 
the  means  of  our  salvation  than  it  declares  and 
defines  that  one  preeminent  agency,  the  CHURCH 
OF  THE  LIVING  GOD,  with  its  inspired  message  and 
its  divinely  instituted  sacraments,  and  divinely 
appointed  threefold  ministry,  as  the  visible  agency 
and  instrument  by  which  that  salvation  is  to  be 
made  known  to  men. 

[27] 

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choose,  but  moving  steadily,  and  that  not 
by  the  shaping  of  circumstances,  but  by  the 
guiding  of  the  Holy  Ghost,  ever  toward  that 
form  and  character  which,  having  once  been 
taken  on,  it  has  always  retained,  whatever 
the  temporary  obscuration  of  its  primitive 
character  or  degradation  of  its  high  purpose 
may  have  befallen  it,  for  well-nigh  twenty 
centuries. 

And  therefore  we  are  here  to  disown 
the  theory  that  the  organic  form  of  Chris- 
tianity, as  the  Catholic  Church  holds  it  and 
has  perpetuated  it,  is  merely  the  development 
and  outcome  of  civil  and  secular  institutions, 
amid  which  it  originally  found  itself,  any 
more  than  the  Atonement  on  Calvary  was 
the  outcome  of  the  Platonic  or  Aristotelian 
philosophies.  Points  of  resemblance,  points 
of  contact,  points  of  identity,  even,  we  may 
own,  here  and  there,  it  may  be,  in  the  one 
as  in  the  others ;  but  we  are  here  to-day,  if 
I  at  all  understand  the  purpose  of  our  com- 
ing, to  affirm  that  yonder  volume  does  not 
more  truly  declare  to  us  the  means  of  our 
salvation  than  it  declares  and  defines  that 
one  preeminent  agency,  the  CHURCH  OF 
THE  LIVING  GOD,  with  its  inspired  message 

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choose,  but  moving  steadily,  and  that  not 
by  the  shaping  of  circumstances,  but  by  the 
guiding  of  the  Holy  Ghost,  ever  toward  that 
form  and  character  which,  having  once  been 
taken  on,  it  has  always  retained,  whatever 
the  temporary  obscuration  of  its  primitive 
character  or  degradation  of  its  high  purpose 
may  have  befallen  it,  for  well-nigh  twenty 
centuries. 

And  therefore  we  are  here  to  disown 
the  theory  that  the  organic  form  of  Chris- 
tianity, as  the  Catholic  Church  holds  it  and 
has  perpetuated  it,  is  merely  the  development 
and  outcome  of  civil  and  secular  institutions, 
amid  which  it  originally  found  itself,  any 
more  than  the  Atonement  on  Calvary  was 
the  outcome  of  the  Platonic  or  Aristotelian 
philosophies.  Points  of  resemblance,  points 
of  contact,  points  of  identity,  even,  we  may 
own,  here  and  there,  it  may  be,  in  the  one 
as  in  the  others  ;  but  we  are  here  to-day,  if 
I  at  all  understand  the  purpose  of  our  com- 
ing, to  affirm  that  yonder  volume  does  not 
more  truly  declare  to  us  the  means  of  our 

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choose,  but  moving  steadily,  and 
that  not  by  the  shaping  of  circum- 
stances, but  by  the  guiding  of  the 
Holy  Ghost,  toward  that  form  and 
character  which,  having  once  taken 
on,  it  has  now  retained,  whatever 
temporary  obscuration  of  its  primi- 
tive character  or  degradation  of  its 
high  purpose  may  have  befallen  it, 
for  well-nigh  twenty  centuries. 

And  therefore  we  are  here  to  dis- 
own the  theory  that  the  organic 
form  of  Christianity,  as  the  Catholic 
Church  holds  it  and  has  perpetuated 
it,  is  merely  the  normal  development 
and  outcome  of  the  civil  and  secular 
institutions,  amid  which  it  had  origi- 
nally found  itself,  any  more  than  the 
Atonement  on  Calvary  was  the  out- 
come of  the  Platonic  or  Aristotelian 
philosophies.  Points  of  resemblance 


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choose,  but  moving  steadily,  and 
that  not  by  the  shaping  of  circum- 
stances, but  by  the  guiding  of  the 
Holy  Ghost,  toward  that  form  and 
character  which,  having  once  taken 
on,  it  has  now  retained,  whatever 
temporary  obscuration  of  its  primi- 
tive character  or  degradation  of  its 
high  purpose  may  have  befallen  it, 
for  well-nigh  twenty  centuries. 

And  therefore  we  are  here  to  dis- 
own the  theory  that  the  organic 
form  of  Christianity,  as  the  Catholic 
Church  holds  it  and  has  perpetuated 
it,  is  merely  the  normal  development 
and  outcome  of  the  civil  and  secular 
institutions,  amid  which  it  originally 
found  itself,  any  more  than  was  the 
Atonement  on  Calvary  the  outcome 

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choose,  but  moving  steadily,  and  that  not  by  the  shaping  of  circum- 
stances, but  by  the  guiding  of  the  Holy  Ghost,  toward  that  form  and 
character  which,  having  once  taken  on,  it  has  now  retained,  what- 
ever temporary  obscuration  of  its  primitive  character  or  degrada- 
tion of  its  high  purpose  may  have  befallen  it,  for  well-nigh  twenty 
centuries. 

And  therefore  we  are  here  to  disown  the  theory  that  the  organic 
form  of  Christianity,  as  the  Catholic  Church  holds  it  and  has  perpet- 
uated it,  is  merely  the  development  and  outcome  of  civil  and  secular 
institutions,  amid  which  it  originally  found  itself,  any  more  than  the 
Atonement  on  Calvary  was  the  outcome  of  the  Platonic  or  Aristotelian 
philosophies.  Points  of  resemblance,  points  of  contact,  points  of 
identity,  even,  we  may  own,  here  and  there,  it  may  be,  in  the  one  as 
in  the  others;  but  we  are  here  to-day,  if  I  at  all  understand  the  pur- 
pose of  our  coming,  to  affirm  that  yonder  volume  does  not  more 
truly  declare  to  us  the  means  of  our  salvation  than  it  declares  and 
defines  that  one  preeminent  agency,  the  CHURCH  OF  THE  LIVING 
GOD,  with  its  inspired  message  and  its  divinely  instituted  sacraments, 
and  divinely  appointed  threefold  ministry,  as  the  visible  agency  and 
instrument  by  which  that  salvation  is  to  be  made  known  to  men. 

And  here,  at  any  rate,  whatever  may  be  proper  elsewhere,  we  are 
not  called  upon  to  go  beyond  this.  How  truly  a  human  body  may 
be  so  designated  which  is  more  or  less  maimed  or  mutilated  is  a 
question  which  theology  may  not  find  it  easier  to  answer  in  one 
domain  than  science  in  another.  But  in  an  age  when  there  is  so 
much  invertebrate  belief,  and  when  the  tone  of  mutual  complacency 
is  so  great  that  one  man's  deliro  (I  dream)  is  as  good  as  another  man's 
credo  (I  believe),  it  is  as  well  in  connection  with  such  an  occasion  as 
this  to  understand  the  ground  upon  which  we  stand,  and  the  point 
from  which  we  set  out.  The  cause  of  the  reunion  of  Christendom 
will  be  greatly  forwarded  by  the  kindly  temper  which  strives  to  un- 
derstand, and  scorns  to  misrepresent  others;  but  it  will  not  be  helped 
by  the  mistaken  amiability  which  seeks  to  misinterpret  or  consents  to 
misrepresent  ourselves. 

I  have  said  this  much,  and  have  endeavored  to  say  it  with  utmost 
plainness,  because,  unless  I  am  mistaken,  the  exigency  of  the  hour 
demands  it.  But  I  have  done  so  mainly  because  it  opens  the  way  to 
that  larger  view  of  our  text  and  of  this  occasion  to  which,  if  possible, 
we  should  ascend. 

For,  first  of  all,  and  plainly  enough,  it  belongs  to  us  to  remember 
on  such  an  occasion  as  this  that  there  is  a  past,  and  that  we  cannot 
divorce  ourselves  from  it.  Interesting  and  impressive  as  even  the 
coldest  criticism  would  be  apt  to  own  the  service  in  which  we  are 
now  engaged,  neither  its  impressiveness  nor  its  intrinsic  appropriate- 
ness is  the  reason  for  our  observance  of  those  solemn  features  which 
compose  it.  We  did  not  originate,  extemporize,  or  invent  them. 
Their  claim  upon  us,  first  of  all,  resides  in  tnis:  that  they  are  a  part 
of  that  venerable  and  scriptural  inheritance  of  which  God  has  put  us 
in  trust.  In  an  age  which,  with  its  smart  sciolism,  considers  itself 

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choose,  but  moving  steadily,  and  that  not  by  the  shaping  of  circum- 
stances, but  by  the  guiding  of  the  Holy  Ghost,  toward  that  form  and 
character  which,  having  once  taken  on,  it  has  now  retained,  what- 
ever temporary  obscuration  of  its  primitive  character  or  degrada- 
tion of  its  high  purpose  may  have  befallen  it,  for  well-nigh  twenty 
centuries. 

And  therefore  we  are  here  to  disown  the  theory  that  the  organic 
form  of  Christianity,  as  the  Catholic  Church  holds  it  and  has  perpet- 
uated it,  is  merely  the  development  and  outcome  of  civil  and  secular 
institutions,  amid  which  it  originally  found  itself,  any  more  than  the 
Atonement  on  Calvary  was  the  outcome  of  the  Platonic  or  Aristotelian 
philosophies.  Points  of  resemblance,  points  of  contact,  points  of 
identity,  even,  we  may  own,  here  and  there,  it  may  be,  in  the  one  as 
in  the  others;  but  we  are  here  to-day,  if  I  at  all  understand  the  pur- 
pose of  our  coming,  to  affirm  that  yonder  volume  does  not  more 
truly  declare  to  us  the  means  of  our  salvation  than  it  declares  and 
defines  that  one  preeminent  agency,  the  CHURCH  OF  THE  LIVING 
GOD,  with  its  inspired  message  and  its  divinely  instituted  sacraments, 
and  divinely  appointed  threefold  ministry,  as  the  visible  agency  and 
instrument  by  which  that  salvation  is  to  be  made  known  to  men. 

And  here,  at  any  rate,  whatever  may  be  proper  elsewhere,  we  are 
not  called  upon  to  go  beyond  this.  How  truly  a  human  body  may 
be  so  designated  which  is  more  or  less  maimed  or  mutilated  is  a 
question  which  theology  may  not  find  it  easier  to  answer  in  one 
domain  than  science  in  another.  But  in  an  age  when  there  is  so 
much  invertebrate  belief,  and  when  the  tone  of  mutual  complacency 
is  so  great  that  one  man's  ddiro  (I  dream)  is  as  good  as  another  man's 
credo  (I  believe),  it  is  as  well  in  connection  with  such  an  occasion  as 
this  to  understand  the  ground  upon  which  we  stand,  and  the  point 
from  which  we  set  out.  The  cause  of  the  reunion  of  Christendom 
will  be  greatly  forwarded  by  the  kindly  temper  which  strives  to  un- 
derstand, and  scorns  to  misrepresent  others;  but  it  will  not  be  helped 
by  the  mistaken  amiability  which  seeks  to  misinterpret  or  consents  to 
misrepresent  ourselves. 

I  have  said  this  much,  and  have  endeavored  to  say  it  with  utmost 
plainness,  because,  unless  I  am  mistaken,  the  exigency  of  the  hour 
demands  it.  But  I  have  done  so  mainly  because  it  opens  the  way  to 
that  larger  view  of  our  text  and  of  this  occasion  to  which,  if  possible, 
we  should  ascend. 

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choose,  but  moving  steadily,  and  that  not  by  the  shaping  of 
circumstances,  but  by  the  guiding  of  the  Holy  Ghost,  toward 
that  form  and  character  which,  having  once  taken  on,  it  has 
now  retained,  whatever  temporary  obscuration  of  its  primi- 
tive character  or  degradation  of  its  high  purpose  may  have 
befallen  it,  for  well-nigh  twenty  centuries. 

And  therefore  we  are  here  to  disown  the  theory  that  the 
organic  form  of  Christianity,  as  the  Catholic  Church  holds  it 
and  has  perpetuated  it,  is  merely  the  development  and  out- 
come of  civil  and  secular  institutions,  amid  which  it  originally 
found  itself,  any  more  than  the  Atonement  on  Calvary  was 
the  outcome  of  the  Platonic  or  Aristotelian  philosophies. 
Points  of  resemblance,  points  of  contact,  points  of  identity, 
even,  we  may  own,  here  and  there,  it  may  be,  in  the  one  as  in 
the  others;  but  we  are  here  to-day,  if  I  at  all  understand  the 
purpose  of  our  coming,  to  affirm  that  yonder  volume  does  not 
more  truly  declare  to  us  the  means  of  our  salvation  than  it 
declares  and  defines  that  one  preeminent  agency,  the  CHURCH 
OF  THE  LIVING  GOD,  with  its  inspired  message  and  its  divinely 
instituted  sacraments,  and  divinely  appointed  threefold  min- 
istry, as  the  visible  agency  and  instrument  by  which  that  sal- 
vation is  to  be  made  known  to  men. 

And  here,  at  any  rate,  whatever  may  be  proper  elsewhere, 
we  are  not  called  upon  to  go  beyond  this.  How  truly  a  hu- 
man body  may  be  so  designated  which  is  more  or  less  maimed 
or  mutilated  is  a  question  which  theology  may  not  find  it 
easier  to  answer  in  one  domain  than  science  in  another. 
But  in  an  age  when  there  is  so  much  invertebrate  belief,  and 
when  the  tone  of  mutual  complacency  is  so  great  that  one 
man's  deliro  (I  dream)  is  as  good  as  another  man's  credo  (I 
believe),  it  is  as  well  in  connection  with  such  an  occasion  as 
this  to  understand  the  ground  upon  which  we  stand,  and  the 
point  from  which  we  set  out.  The  cause  of  the  reunion  of 
Christendom  will  be  greatly  forwarded  by  the  kindly  temper 
which  strives  to  understand,  and  scorns  to  misrepresent  others; 
but  it  will  not  be  helped  by  the  mistaken  amiability  which 
seeks  to  misinterpret  or  consents  to  misrepresent  ourselves. 

I  have  said  this  much,  and  have  endeavored  to  say  it  with 
utmost  plainness,  because,  unless  I  am  mistaken,  the  exigency 

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choose,  but  moving  steadily,  and  that  not  by  the  shaping  of 
circumstances,  but  by  the  guiding  of  the  Holy  Ghost,  toward 
that  form  and  character  which,  having  once  taken  on,  it  has 
now  retained,  whatever  temporary  obscuration  of  its  primi- 
tive character  or  degradation  of  its  high  purpose  may  have 
befallen  it,  for  well-nigh  twenty  centuries. 

And  therefore  we  are  here  to  disown  the  theory  that  the 
organic  form  of  Christianity,  as  the  Catholic  Church  holds  it 
and  has  perpetuated  it,  is  merely  the  development  and  out- 
come of  civil  and  secular  institutions,  amid  which  it  originally 
found  itself,  any  more  than  the  Atonement  on  Calvary  was 
the  outcome  of  the  Platonic  or  Aristotelian  philosophies. 
Points  of  resemblance,  points  of  contact,  points  of  identity, 
even,  we  may  own,  here  and  there,  it  may  be,  in  the  one  as  in 
the  others;  but  we  are  here  to-day,  if  I  at  all  understand  the 
purpose  of  our  coming,  to  affirm  that  yonder  volume  does  not 
more  truly  declare  to  us  the  means  of  our  salvation  than  it 
declares  and  defines  that  one  preeminent  agency,  the  CHURCH 
OF  THE  LIVING  GOD,  with  its  inspired  message  and  its  divinely 
instituted  sacraments,  and  divinely  appointed  threefold  min- 
istry, as  the  visible  agency  and  instrument  by  which  that  sal- 
vation is  to  be  made  known  to  men. 

And  here,  at  any  rate,  whatever  may  be  proper  elsewhere, 
we  are  not  called  upon  to  go  beyond  this.  How  truly  a  hu- 
man body  may  be  so  designated  which  is  more  or  less  maimed 
or  mutilated  is  a  question  which  theology  may  not  find  it 
easier  to  answer  in  one  domain  than  science  in  another. 
But  in  an  age  when  there  is  so  much  invertebrate  belief,  and 
when  the  tone  of  mutual  complacency  is  so  great  that  one 
man's  deliro  (I  dream)  is  as  good  as  another  man's  credo  (I 
believe),  it  is  as  well  in  connection  with  such  an  occasion  as 
this  to  understand  the  ground  upon  which  we  stand,  and  the 

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choose,  but  moving  steadily,  and  that  not  by  the  shap- 
ing of  circumstances,  but  by  the  guiding  of  the  Holy 
Ghost,  toward  that  form  and  character  which,  having 
once  taken  on,  it  has  now  retained,  whatever  temporary 
obscuration  of  its  primitive  character  or  degradation  of 
its  high  purpose  may  have  befallen  it,  for  well-nigh 
twenty  centuries. 

And  therefore  we  are  here  to  disown  the  theory  that 
the  organic  form  of  Christianity,  as  the  Catholic  Church 
holds  it  and  has  perpetuated  it,  is  merely  the  develop- 
ment and  outcome  of  civil  and  secular  institutions, 
amid  which  it  originally  found  itself,  any  more  than  the 
Atonement  on  Calvary  was  the  outcome  of  the  Platonic 
or  Aristotelian  philosophies.  Points  of  resemblance, 
points  of  contact,  points  of  identity,  even,  we  may  own, 
here  and  there,  it  may  be,  in  the  one  as  in  the  others; 
but  we  are  here  to-day,  if  I  at  all  understand  the  pur- 
pose of  our  coming,  to  affirm  that  yonder  volume  does 
not  more  truly  declare  to  us  the  means  of  our  salvation 
than  it  declares  and  defines  that  one  preeminent  agency, 
the  CHURCH  OF  THE  LIVING  GOD,  with  its  inspired 
message  and  its  divinely  instituted  sacraments,  and 
divinely  appointed  threefold  ministry,  as  the  visible 
agency  and  instrument  by  which  that  salvation  is  to  be 
made  known  to  men. 

And  here,  at  any  rate,  whatever  may  be  proper  else- 
where, we  are  not  called  upon  to  go  beyond  this.  How 
truly  a  human  body  may  be  so  designated  which  is 
more  or  less  maimed  or  mutilated  is  a  question  which 
theology  may  not  find  it  easier  to  answer  in  one  domain 
than  science  in  another.  But  in  an  age  when  there  is 
so  much  invertebrate  belief,  and  when  the  tone  of 
mutual  complacency  is  so  great  that  one  man's  deliro 
(I  dream)  is  as  good  as  another  man's  credo  (I  believe), 
it  is  as  well  in  connection  with  such  an  occasion  as  this 

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choose,  but  moving  steadily,  and  that  not  by  the  shap- 
ing of  circumstances,  but  by  the  guiding  of  the  Holy 
Ghost,  toward  that  form  and  character  which,  having 
once  taken  on,  it  has  now  retained,  whatever  temporary 
obscuration  of  its  primitive  character  or  degradation  of 
its  high  purpose  may  have  befallen  it,  for  well-nigh 
twenty  centuries. 

And  therefore  we  are  here  to  disown  the  theory  that 
the  organic  form  of  Christianity,  as  the  Catholic  Church 
holds  it  and  has  perpetuated  it,  is  merely  the  develop- 
ment and  outcome  of  civil  and  secular  institutions, 
amid  which  it  originally  found  itself,  any  more  than  the 
Atonement  on  Calvary  was  the  outcome  of  the  Platonic 
or  Aristotelian  philosophies.  Points  of  resemblance, 
points  of  contact,  points  of  identity,  even,  we  may  own, 
here  and  there,  it  may  be,  in  the  one  as  in  the  others; 
but  we  are  here  to-day,  if  I  at  all  understand  the  pur- 
pose of  our  coming,  to  affirm  that  yonder  volume  does 
not  more  truly  declare  to  us  the  means  of  our  salvation 
than  it  declares  and  defines  that  one  preeminent  agency, 
the  CHURCH  OF  THE  LIVING  GOD,  with  its  inspired 
message  and  its  divinely  instituted  sacraments,  and 
divinely  appointed  threefold  ministry,  as  the  visible 
agency  and  instrument  by  which  that  salvation  is  to  be 
made  known  to  men. 

And  here,  at  any  rate,  whatever  may  be  proper  else- 
where, we  are  not  called  upon  to  go  beyond  this.  How 
truly  a  human  body  may  be  so  designated  which  is 
more  or  less  maimed  or  mutilated  is  a  question  which 
theology  may  not  find  it  easier  to  answer  in  one  domain 

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choose,  but  moving  steadily,  and  that  not  by 
the  shaping  of  circumstances,  but  by  the  guid- 
ing of  the  Holy  Ghost,  toward  that  form  and 
character  which,  having  once  taken  on,  it  has 
now  retained,  whatever  temporary  obscura- 
tion of  its  primitive  character  or  degradation 
of  its  high  purpose  may  have  befallen  it,  for 
well-nigh  twenty  centuries. 

And  therefore  we  are  here  to  disown  the 
theory  that  the  organic  form  of  Christianity, 
as  the  Catholic  Church  holds  it  and  has  per- 
petuated it,  is  merely  the  development  and 
outcome  of  civil  and  secular  institutions,  amid 
which  it  originally  found  itself,  any  more  than 
the  Atonement  on  Calvary  was  the  outcome 
of  the  Platonic  or  Aristotelian  philosophies. 
Points  of  resemblance,  points  of  contact, 
points  of  identity,  even,  we  may  own,  here  and 
there,  it  may  be,  in  the  one  as  in  the  others; 
but  we  are  here  to-day,  if  I  at  all  understand 
the  purpose  of  our  coming,  to  affirm  that  yon- 
der volume  does  not  more  truly  declare  to  us 
the  means  of  our  salvation  than  it  declares 
and  defines  that  one  preeminent  agency,  the 
CHURCH  OF  THE  LIVING  GOD,  with  its  in- 
spired message  and  its  divinely  instituted  sac- 
raments, and  divinely  appointed  threefold 
ministry,  as  the  visible  agency  and  instrument 
by  which  that  salvation  is  to  be  made  known 
to  men. 

And  here,  at  any  rate,  whatever  may  be 
proper  elsewhere,  we  are  not  called  upon  to 

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choose,  but  moving  steadily,  and  that  not  by 
the  shaping  of  circumstances,  but  by  the  guid- 
ing of  the  Holy  Ghost,  toward  that  form  and 
character  which,  having  once  taken  on,  it  has 
now  retained,  whatever  temporary  obscura- 
tion of  its  primitive  character  or  degradation 
of  its  high  purpose  may  have  befallen  it,  for 
well-nigh  twenty  centuries. 

And  therefore  we  are  here  to  disown  the 
theory  that  the  organic  form  of  Christianity, 
as  the  Catholic  Church  holds  it  and  has  per- 
petuated it,  is  merely  the  development  and 
outcome  of  civil  and  secular  institutions,  amid 
which  it  originally  found  itself,  any  more  than 
the  Atonement  on  Calvary  was  the  outcome 
of  the  Platonic  or  Aristotelian  philosophies. 
Points  of  resemblance,  points  of  contact, 
points  of  identity,  even,  we  may  own,  here  and 
there,  it  may  be,  in  the  one  as  in  the  others; 
but  we  are  here  to-day,  if  I  at  all  understand 
the  purpose  of  our  coming,  to  affirm  that  yon- 
der volume  does  not  more  truly  declare  to  us 
the  means  of  our  salvation  than  it  declares 
and  defines  that  one  preeminent  agency,  the 
CHURCH  OF  THE  LIVING  GOD,  with  its  in- 
spired message  and  its  divinely  instituted  sac- 
raments, and  divinely  appointed  threefold 
ministry,  as  the  visible  agency  and  instrument 
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choose,  but  moving  steadily,  and  that  not  by  the  shaping  of 
circumstances,  but  by  the  guiding  of  the  Holy  Ghost,  toward 
that  form  and  character  which,  having  once  taken  on,  it  has 
now  retained,  whatever  temporary  obscuration  of  its  primi- 
tive character  or  degradation  of  its  high  purpose  may  have 
befallen  it,  for  well-nigh  twenty  centuries. 

And  therefore  we  are  here  to  disown  the  theory  that  the 
organic  form  of  Christianity,  as  the  Catholic  Church  holds 
it  and  has  perpetuated  it,  is  merely  the  development  and 
outcome  of  civil  and  secular  institutions,  amid  which  it 
originally  found  itself,  any  more  than  the  Atonement  on 
Calvary  was  the  outcome  of  the  Platonic  or  Aristotelian  phi- 
losophies. Points  of  resemblance,  points  of  contact,  points 
of  identity,  even,  we  may  own,  here  and  there,  it  may  be,  in 
the  one  as  in  the  others;  but  we  are  here  to-day,  if  I  at  all 
understand  the  purpose  of  our  coming,  to  affirm  that  yonder 
volume  does  not  more  truly  declare  to  us  the  means  of  our 
salvation  than  it  declares  and  defines  that  one  preeminent 
agency,  the  CHURCH  OF  THE  LIVING  GOD,  with  its  inspired 
message  and  its  divinely  instituted  sacraments,  and  divinely 
appointed  threefold  ministry,  as  the  visible  agency  and  in- 
strument by  which  that  salvation  is  to  be  made  known  to 
men. 

And  here,  at  any  rate,  whatever  may  be  proper  elsewhere, 
we  are  not  called  upon  to  go  beyond  this.  How  truly  a 
human  body  may  be  so  designated  which  is  more  or  less 
maimed  or  mutilated  is  a  question  which  theology  may  not 
find  it  easier  to  answer  in  one  domain  than  science  in  an- 
other. But  in  an  age  when  there  is  so  much  invertebrate 
belief,  and  when  the  tone  of  mutual  complacency  is  so  great 
that  one  man's  deliro  (I  dream)  is  as  good  as  another  man's 
credo  (I  believe),  it  is  as  well  in  connection  with  such  an 
occasion  as  this  to  understand  the  ground  upon  which  we 
stand,  and  the  point  from  which  we  set  out.  The  cause  of 
the  reunion  of  Christendom  will  be  greatly  forwarded  by  the 
kindly  temper  which  strives  to  understand,  and  scorns  to 
misrepresent  others;  but  it  will  not  be  helped  by  the  mis- 
taken amiability  which  seeks  to  misinterpret  or  consents  to 
misrepresent  ourselves. 

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choose,  but  moving  steadily,  and  that  not  by  the  shaping  of 
circumstances,  but  by  the  guiding  of  the  Holy  Ghost,  toward 
that  form  and  character  which,  having  once  taken  on,  it  has 
now  retained,  whatever  temporary  obscuration  of  its  primi- 
tive character  or  degradation  of  its  high  purpose  may  have 
befallen  it,  for  well-nigh  twenty  centuries. 

And  therefore  we  are  here  to  disown  the  theory  that  the 
organic  form  of  Christianity,  as  the  Catholic  Church  holds 
it  and  has  perpetuated  it,  is  merely  the  development  and 
outcome  of  civil  and  secular  institutions,  amid  which  it 
originally  found  itself,  any  more  than  the  Atonement  on 
Calvary  was  the  outcome  of  the  Platonic  or  Aristotelian  phi- 
losophies. Points  of  resemblance,  points  of  contact,  points 
of  identity,  even,  we  may  own,  here  and  there,  it  may  be,  in 
the  one  as  in  the  others;  but  we  are  here  to-day,  if  I  at  all 
understand  the  purpose  of  our  coming,  to  affirm  that  yonder 
volume  does  not  more  truly  declare  to  us  the  means  of  our 
salvation  than  it  declares  and  defines  that  one  preeminent 
agency,  the  CHURCH  OF  THE  LIVING  GOD,  with  its  inspired 
message  and  its  divinely  instituted  sacraments,  and  divinely 
appointed  threefold  ministry,  as  the  visible  agency  and  in- 
strument by  which  that  salvation  is  to  be  made  known  to 
men. 

And  here,  at  any  rate,  whatever  may  be  proper  elsewhere, 
we  are  not  called  upon  to  go  beyond  this.  How  truly  a 
human  body  may  be  so  designated  which  is  more  or  less 
maimed  or  mutilated  is  a  question  which  theology  may  not 
find  it  easier  to  answer  in  one  domain  than  science  in  an- 
other. But  in  an  age  when  there  is  so  much  invertebrate 
belief,  and  when  the  tone  of  mutual  complacency  is  so  great 
that  one  man's  deliro  (I  dream)  is  as  good  as  another  man's 
credo  (I  believe),  it  is  as  well  in  connection  with  such  an 

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choose,  but  moving  steadily,  and  that  not  by  the 
shaping  of  circumstances,  but  by  the  guiding  of  the 
Holy  Ghost,  toward  that  form  and  character  which, 
having  once  taken  on,  it  has  now  retained,  whatever 
temporary  obscuration  of  its  primitive  character  or 
degradation  of  its  high  purpose  may  have  befallen  it, 
for  well-nigh  twenty  centuries. 

And  therefore  we  are  here  to  disown  the  theory  that 
the  organic  form  of  Christianity,  as  the  Catholic  Church 
holds  it  and  has  perpetuated  it,  is  merely  the  develop- 
ment and  outcome  of  civil  and  secular  institutions, 
amid  which  it  originally  found  itself,  any  more  than 
the  Atonement  on  Calvary  was  the  outcome  of  the 
Platonic  or  Aristotelian  philosophies.  Points  of  re- 
semblance, points  of  contact,  points  of  identity,  even, 
we  may  own,  here  and  there,  it  may  be,  in  the  one  as 
in  the  others  ;  but  we  are  here  to-day,  if  I  at  all  under- 
stand the  purpose  of  our  coming,  to  affirm  that  yonder 
volume  does  not  more  truly  declare  to  us  the  means  of 
our  salvation  than  it  declares  and  defines  that  one 
preeminent  agency,  the  CHURCH  OF  THE  LIVING  GOD, 
with  its  inspired  message  and  its  divinely  instituted 
sacraments,  and  divinely  appointed  threefold  ministry, 
as  the  visible  agency  and  instrument  by  which  that 
salvation  is  to  be  made  known  to  men. 

And  here,  at  any  rate,  whatever  may  be  proper  else- 
where, we  are  not  called  upon  to  go  beyond  this.  How 
truly  a  human  body  may  be  so  designated  which  is 
more  or  less  maimed  or  mutilated  is  a  question  which 
theology  may  not  find  it  easier  to  answer  in  one  do- 
main than  science  in  another.  But  in  an  age  when 
there  is  so  much  invertebrate  belief,  and  when  the  tone 
of  mutual  complacency  is  so  great  that  one  man's  deliro 
(I  dream)  is  as  good  as  another  man's  credo  (I  believe), 
it  is  as  well  in  connection  with  such  an  occasion  as 
this  to  understand  the  ground  upon  which  we  stand, 
and  the  point  from  which  we  set  out.  The  cause  of 
the  reunion  of  Christendom  will  be  greatly  forwarded 
by  the  kindly  temper  which  strives  to  understand,  and 


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choose,  but  moving  steadily,  and  that  not  by  the 
shaping  of  circumstances,  but  by  the  guiding  of  the 
Holy  Ghost,  toward  that  form  and  character  which, 
having  once  taken  on,  it  has  now  retained,  whatever 
temporary  obscuration  of  its  primitive  character  or 
degradation  of  its  high  purpose  may  have  befallen  it, 
for  well-nigh  twenty  centuries. 

And  therefore  we  are  here  to  disown  the  theory  that 
the  organic  form  of  Christianity,  as  the  Catholic  Church 
holds  it  and  has  perpetuated  it,  is  merely  the  develop- 
ment and  outcome  of  civil  and  secular  institutions, 
amid  which  it  originally  found  itself,  any  more  than 
the  Atonement  on  Calvary  was  the  outcome  of  the 
Platonic  or  Aristotelian  philosophies.  Points  of  re- 
semblance, points  of  contact,  points  of  identity,  even, 
we  may  own,  here  and  there,  it  may  be,  in  the  one  as 
in  the  others;  but  we  are  here  to-day,  if  I  at  all  under- 
stand the  purpose  of  our  coming,  to  affirm  that  yonder 
volume  does  not  more  truly  declare  to  us  the  means  of 
our  salvation  than  it  declares  and  defines  that  one 
preeminent  agency,  the  CHURCH  OF  THE  LIVING  GOD, 
with  its  inspired  message  and  its  divinely  instituted 
sacraments,  and  divinely  appointed  threefold  ministry, 
as  the  visible  agency  and  instrument  by  which  that 
salvation  is  to  be  made  known  to  men. 

And  here,  at  any  rate,  whatever  may  be  proper  else- 
where, we  are  not  called  upon  to  go  beyond  this.  How 
truly  a  human  body  may  be  so  designated  which  is 
more  or  less  maimed  or  mutilated  is  a  question  which 
theology  may  not  find  it  easier  to  answer  in  one  do- 
main than  science  in  another.  But  in  an  age  when 
there  is  so  much  invertebrate  belief,  and  when  the  tone 

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choose,  but  moving  steadily,  and  that  not  by  the  shaping  of 
circumstances,  but  by  the  guiding  of  the  Holy  Ghost,  toward 
that  form  and  character  which,  having  once  taken  on,  it  has 
now  retained,  whatever  temporary  obscuration  of  its  primi- 
tive character  or  degradation  of  its  high  purpose  may  have 
befallen  it,  for  well-nigh  twenty  centuries. 

And  therefore  we  are  here  to  disown  the  theory  that  the 
organic  form  of  Christianity,  as  the  Catholic  Church  holds 
it  and  has  perpetuated  it,  is  merely  the  development  and 
outcome  of  civil  and  secular  institutions,  amid  which  it 
originally  found  itself,  any  more  than  the  Atonement  on 
Calvary  was  the  outcome  of  the  Platonic  or  Aristotelian  phi- 
losophies. Points  of  resemblance,  points  of  contact,  points 
of  identity,  even,  we  may  own,  here  and  there,  it  may  be,  in 
the  one  as  in  the  others;  but  we  are  here  to-day,  if  I  at  all 
understand  the  purpose  of  our  coming,  to  affirm  that  yonder 
volume  does  not  more  truly  declare  to  us  the  means  of  our 
salvation  than  it  declares  and  defines  that  one  preeminent 
agency,  the  CHURCH  OF  THE  LIVING  GOD,  with  its  inspired 
message  and  its  divinely  instituted  sacraments,  and  divinely 
appointed  threefold  ministry,  as  the  visible  agency  and  in- 
strument by  which  that  salvation  is  to  be  made  known  to 
men. 

And  here,  at  any  rate,  whatever  may  be  proper  elsewhere, 
we  are  not  called  upon  to  go  beyond  this.  How  truly  a 
human  body  may  be  so  designated  which  is  more  or  less 
maimed  or  mutilated  is  a  question  which  theology  may  not 
find  it  easier  to  answer  in  one  domain  than  science  in  an- 
other. But  in  an  age  when  there  is  so  much  invertebrate 
belief,  and  when  the  tone  of  mutual  complacency  is  so  great 
that  one  man's  deliro  (I  dream)  is  as  good  as  another  man's 
credo  (I  believe),  it  is  as  well  in  connection  with  such  an 
occasion  as  this  to  understand  the  ground  upon  which  we 
stand,  and  the  point  from  which  we  set  out.  The  cause  of 
the  reunion  of  Christendom  will  be  greatly  forwarded  by  the 
kindly  temper  which  strives  to  understand,  and  scorns  to 
misrepresent  others;  but  it  will  not  be  helped  by  the  mis- 
taken amiability  which  seeks  to  misinterpret  or  consents  to 
misrepresent  ourselves. 

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choose,  but  moving  steadily,  and  that  not  by  the  shaping  of 
circumstances,  but  by  the  guiding  of  the  Holy  Ghost,  toward 
that  form  and  character  which,  having  once  taken  on,  it  has 
now  retained,  whatever  temporary  obscuration  of  its  primi- 
tive character  or  degradation  of  its  high  purpose  may  have 
befallen  it,  for  well-nigh  twenty  centuries. 

And  therefore  we  are  here  to  disown  the  theory  that  the 
organic  form  of  Christianity,  as  the  Catholic  Church  holds 
it  and  has  perpetuated  it,  is  merely  the  development  and 
outcome  of  civil  and  secular  institutions,  amid  which  it 
originally  found  itself,  any  more  than  the  Atonement  on 
Calvary  was  the  outcome  of  the  Platonic  or  Aristotelian  phi- 
losophies. Points  of  resemblance,  points  of  contact,  points 
of  identity,  even,  we  may  own,  here  and  there,  it  may  be,  in 
the  one  as  in  the  others;  but  we  are  here  to-day,  if  I  at  all 
understand  the  purpose  of  our  coming,  to  affirm  that  yonder 
volume  does  not  more  truly  declare  to  us  the  means  of  our 
salvation  than  it  declares  and  defines  that  one  preeminent 
agency,  the  CHURCH  OF  THE  LIVING  GOD,  with  its  inspired 
message  and  its  divinely  instituted  sacraments,  and  divinely 
appointed  threefold  ministry,  as  the  visible  agency  and  in- 
strument by  which  that  salvation  is  to  be  made  known  to 
men. 

And  here,  at  any  rate,  whatever  may  be  proper  elsewhere, 
we  are  not  called  upon  to  go  beyond  this.  How  truly  a 
human  body  may  be  so  designated  which  is  more  or  less 
maimed  or  mutilated  is  a  question  which  theology  may  not 
find  it  easier  to  answer  in  one  domain  than  science  hi  an- 
other. But  in  an  age  when  there  is  so  much  invertebrate 
belief,  and  when  the  tone  of  mutual  complacency  is  so  great 
that  one  man's  deliro  (I  dream)  is  as  good  as  another  man's 
credo  (I  believe),  it  is  as  well  in  connection  with  such  an 

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choose,  but  moving  steadily,  and  that  not  by  the  shaping  of 
circumstances,  but  by  the  guiding  of  the  Holy  Ghost,  toward 
that  form  and  character  which,  having  once  taken  on,  it  has  now 
retained,  whatever  temporary  obscuration  of  its  primitive  char- 
acter or  degradation  of  its  high  purpose  may  have  befallen  it, 
for  well-nigh  twenty  centuries. 

And  therefore  we  are  here  to  disown  the  theory  that  the  or- 
ganic form  of  Christianity,  as  the  Catholic  Church  holds  it  and 
has  perpetuated  it,  is  merely  the  development  and  outcome  of 
civil  and  secular  institutions,  amid  which  it  originally  found 
itself,  any  more  than  the  Atonement  on  Calvary  was  the  out- 
come of  the  Platonic  or  Aristotelian  philosophies.  Points  of 
resemblance,  points  of  contact,  points  of  identity,  even,  we  may 
own,  here  and  there,  it  may  be,  in  the  one  as  in  the  others;  but 
we  are  here  to-day,  if  I  at  all  understand  the  purpose  of  our 
coming,  to  affirm  that  yonder  volume  does  not  more  truly  de- 
clare to  us  the  means  of  our  salvation  than  it  declares  and 
defines  that  one  preeminent  agency,  the  Church  of  the  Living 
God,  with  its  inspired  message  and  its  divinely  instituted  sacra- 
ments, and  divinely  appointed  threefold  ministry,  as  the  visible 
agency  and  instrument  by  which  that  salvation  is  to  be  made 
known  to  men. 

And  here,  at  any  rate,  whatever  may  be  proper  elsewhere,  we 
are  not  called  upon  to  go  beyond  this.  How  truly  a  human 
body  may  be  so  designated  which  is  more  or  less  maimed  or 
mutilated  is  a  question  which  theology  may  not  find  it  easier 
to  answer  in  one  domain  than  science  in  another.  But  in  an 
age  when  there  is  so  much  invertebrate  belief,  and  when  the 
tone  of  mutual  complacency  is  so  great  that  one  man's  deliro 
(I  dream)  is  as  good  as  another  man's  credo  (I  believe),  it  is  as 
well  in  connection  with  such  an  occasion  as  this  to  understand 
the  ground  upon  which  we  stand,  and  the  point  from  which  we 
set  out.  The  cause  of  the  reunion  of  Christendom  will  be 
greatly  forwarded  by  the  kindly  temper  which  strives  to  under- 
stand, and  scorns  to  misrepresent  others ;  but  it  will  not  be 
helped  by  the  mistaken  amiability  which  seeks  to  misinterpret 
or  consents  to  misrepresent  ourselves. 

I  have  said  this  much,  and  have  endeavored  to  say  it  with 
utmost  plainness,  because,  unless  I  am  mistaken,  the  exigency 
of  the  hour  demands  it.  But  I  have  done  so  mainly  because  it 
opens  the  way  to  that  larger  view  of  our  text  and  of  this  occa- 
sion to  which,  if  possible,  we  should  ascend. 

For,  first  of  all,  and  plainly  enough,  it  belongs  to  us  to  remem- 
ber on  such  an  occasion  as  this  that  there  is  a  past,  and  that  we 
cannot  divorce  ourselves  from  it.  Interesting  and  impressive 
as  even  the  coldest  criticism  would  be  apt  to  own  the  service  in 
which  we  are  now  engaged,  neither  its  impressiveness  nor  its 
intrinsic  appropriateness  is  the  reason  for  our  observance  of 
those  solemn  features  which  compose  it.  We  did  not  originate, 

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choose,  but  moving  steadily,  and  that  not  by  the  shaping  of 
circumstances,  but  by  the  guiding  of  the  Holy  Ghost,  toward 
that  form  and  character  which,  having  once  taken  on,  it  has  now 
retained,  whatever  temporary  obscuration  of  its  primitive  char- 
acter or  degradation  of  its  high  purpose  may  have  befallen  it, 
for  well-nigh  twenty  centuries. 

And  therefore  we  are  here  to  disown  the  theory  that  the  or- 
ganic form  of  Christianity,  as  the  Catholic  Church  holds  it  and 
has  perpetuated  it,  is  merely  the  development  and  outcome  of 
civil  and  secular  institutions,  amid  which  it  originally  found 
itself,  any  more  than  the  Atonement  on  Calvary  was  the  out- 
come of  the  Platonic  or  Aristotelian  philosophies.  Points  of 
resemblance,  points  of  contact,  points  of  identity,  even,  we  may 
own,  here  and  there,  it  may  be,  in  the  one  as  in  the  others;  but 
we  are  here  to-day,  if  I  at  all  understand  the  purpose  of  our 
coming,  to  affirm  that  yonder  volume  does  not  more  truly  de- 
clare to  us  the  means  of  our  salvation  than  it  declares  and 
defines  that  one  preeminent  agency,  the  Church  of  the  Living 
God,  with  its  inspired  message  and  its  divinely  instituted  sacra- 
ments, and  divinely  appointed  threefold  ministry,  as  the  visible 
agency  and  instrument  by  which  that  salvation  is  to  be  made 
known  to  men. 

And  here,  at  any  rate,  whatever  may  be  proper  elsewhere,  we 
are  not  called  upon  to  go  beyond  this.  How  truly  a  human 
body  may  be  so  designated  which  is  more  or  less  maimed  or 
mutilated  is  a  question  which  theology  may  not  find  it  easier 
to  answer  in  one  domain  than  science  in  another.  But  in  an 
age  when  there  is  so  much  invertebrate  belief,  and  when  the 
tone  of  mutual  complacency  is  so  great  that  one  man's  deliro 
(I  dream)  is  as  good  as  another  man's  credo  (I  believe),  it  is  as 
well  in  connection  with  such  an  occasion  as  this  to  understand 
the  ground  upon  which  we  stand,  and  the  point  from  which  we 
set  out.  The  cause  of  the  reunion  of  Christendom  will  be 
greatly  forwarded  by  the  kindly  temper  which  strives  to  under- 
stand, and  scorns  to  misrepresent  others ;  but  it  will  not  be 
helped  by  the  mistaken  amiability  which  seeks  to  misinterpret 
or  consents  to  misrepresent  ourselves. 

I  have  said  this  much,  and  have  endeavored  to  say  it  with 
utmost  plainness,  because,  unless  I  am  mistaken,  the  exigency 

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choose,  but  moving  steadily,  and  that  not  by  the 
shaping  of  circumstances,  but  by  the  guiding  of 
the  Holy  Ghost,  toward  that  form  and  character 
which,  having  once  taken  on,  it  has  now  retained, 
whatever  temporary  obscuration  of  its  primitive 
character  or  degradation  of  its  high  purpose  may 
have  befallen  it,  for  well-nigh  twenty  centuries. 

And  therefore  we  are  here  to  disown  the  theory 
that  the  organic  form  of  Christianity,  as  the  Catho- 
lic Church  holds  it  and  has  perpetuated  it,  is 
merely  the  development  and  outcome  of  civil  and 
secular  institutions,  amid  which  it  originally  found 
itself,  any  more  than  the  Atonement  on  Calvary 
was  the  outcome  of  the  Platonic  or  Aristotelian 
philosophies.  Points  of  resemblance,  points  of 
contact,  points  of  identity,  even,  we  may  own, 
here  and  there,  it  may  be,  in  the  one  as  in  the 
others  ;  but  we  are  here  to-day,  if  I  at  all  under- 
stand the  purpose  of  our  coming,  to  affirm  that 
yonder  volume  does  not  more  truly  declare  to  us 
the  means  of  our  salvation  than  it  declares  and 
defines  that  one  preeminent  agency,  the  Church 
of  the  Living  God,  with  its  inspired  message  and 
its  divinely  instituted  sacraments,  and  divinely 
appointed  threefold  ministry,  as  the  visible  agency 
and  instrument  by  which  that  salvation  is  to  be 
made  known  to  men. 

And  here,  at  any  rate,  whatever  may  be  proper 
elsewhere,  we  are  not  called  upon  to  go  beyond 
this.  How  truly  a  human  body  may  be  so  desig- 
nated which  is  more  or  less  maimed  or  mutilated 
is  a  question  which  theology  may  not  find  it  easier 
to  answer  in  one  domain  than  science  in  another. 
But  in  an  age  when  there  is  so  much  invertebrate 
belief,  and  when  the  tone  of  mutual  complacency 
is  so  great  that  one  man's  deliro  (I  dream)  is  as 
good  as  another  man's  credo  (I  believe),  it  is  as 
well  in  connection  with  such  an  occasion  as  this 
to  understand  the  ground  upon  which  we  stand, 

[48] 

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choose,  but  moving  steadily,  and  that  not  by  the 
shaping  of  circumstances,  but  by  the  guiding  of 
the  Holy  Ghost,  toward  that  form  and  character 
which,  having  once  taken  on,  it  has  now  retained, 
whatever  temporary  obscuration  of  its  primitive 
character  or  degradation  of  its  high  purpose  may 
have  befallen  it,  for  well-nigh  twenty  centuries. 

And  therefore  we  are  here  to  disown  the  theory 
that  the  organic  form  of  Christianity,  as  the  Catho- 
lic Church  holds  it  and  has  perpetuated  it,  is 
merely  the  development  and  outcome  of  civil  and 
secular  institutions,  amid  which  it  originally  found 
itself,  any  more  than  the  Atonement  on  Calvary 
was  the  outcome  of  the  Platonic  or  Aristotelian 
philosophies.  Points  of  resemblance,  points  of 
contact,  points  of  identity,  even,  we  may  own, 
here  and  there,  it  may  be,  in  the  one  as  in  the 
others ;  but  we  are  here  to-day,  if  I  at  all  under- 
stand the  purpose  of  our  coming,  to  affirm  that 
yonder  volume  does  not  more  truly  declare  to  us 
the  means  of  our  salvation  than  it  declares  and 
defines  that  one  preeminent  agency,  the  Church 
of  the  Living  God,  with  its  inspired  message  and 
its  divinely  instituted  sacraments,  and  divinely 
appointed  threefold  ministry,  as  the  visible  agency 
and  instrument  by  which  that  salvation  is  to  be 
made  known  to  men. 

And  here,  at  any  rate,  whatever  may  be  proper 
elsewhere,  we  are  not  called  upon  to  go  beyond 
this.  How  truly  a  human  body  may  be  so  desig- 
nated which  is  more  or  less  maimed  or  mutilated 
is  a  question  which  theology  may  not  find  it  easier 

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choose,  but  moving  steadily,  and  that  not 
by  the  shaping  of  circumstances,  but  by 
the  guiding  of  the  Holy  Ghost,  toward  that 
form  and  character  which,  having  once 
taken  on,  it  has  retained,  whatever  the 
temporary  obscuration  of  its  primitive 
character  or  degradation  of  its  high  pur- 
pose may  have  befallen  it,  for  well-nigh 
twenty  centuries. 

And  therefore  we  are  here  to  disown  the 
theory  that  the  organic  form  of  Christian- 
ity, as  the  Catholic  Church  holds  it  and  has 
always  perpetuated  it,  is  merely  the  de- 
velopment and  outcome  of  civil  and  secu- 
lar institutions,  amid  which  it  originally 
found  itself,  any  more  than  the  Atonement 
on  Calvary  was  the  outcome  of  the  Pla- 
tonic or  Aristotelian  philosophies.  Points 
of  resemblance,  points  of  contact,  points 
of  identity,  even,  we  may  own,  here  and 
there,  it  may  be,  in  the  one  as  in  the  others; 
but  we  are  here  to-day,  if  I  at  all  under- 
stand the  purpose  of  our  coming,  to  affirm 
that  yonder  volume  does  not  more  truly 
declare  to  us  the  means  of  our  salvation 
than  it  declares  and  defines  that  one  pre- 
eminent agency,  the  Church  of  the  Liv- 
ing God,  with  its  inspired  message  and 
its  divinely  instituted  sacraments,  and  di- 
vinely appointed  threefold  ministry,  as  the 
visible  agency  and  instrument  by  which 
that  salvation  is  to  be  made  known  to 

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choose,  but  moving  steadily,  and  that  not 
by  the  shaping  of  circumstances,  but.  by 
the  guiding  of  the  Holy  Ghost,  toward  that 
form  and  character  which,  having  once 
taken  on,  it  has  retained,  whatever  the 
temporary  obscuration  of  its  primitive 
character  or  degradation  of  its  high  pur- 
pose may  have  befallen  it,  for  well-nigh 
twenty  centuries. 

And  therefore  we  are  here  to  disown  the 
theory  that  the  organic  form  of  Christian- 
ity, as  the  Catholic  Church  holds  it  and  has 
always  perpetuated  it,  is  merely  the  de- 
velopment and  outcome  of  civil  and  secu- 
lar institutions,  amid  which  it  originally 
found  itself,  any  more  than  the  Atonement 
on  Calvary  was  the  outcome  of  the  Pla- 
tonic or  Aristotelian  philosophies.  Points 
of  resemblance,  points  of  contact,  points 
of  identity,  even,  we  may  own,  here  and 
there,  it  may  be,  in  the  one  as  in  the  others  ; 
but  we  are  here  to-day,  if  I  at  all  under- 
stand the  purpose  of  our  coming,  to  affirm 
that  yonder  volume  does  not  more  truly 
declare  to  us  the  means  of  our  salvation 
than  it  declares  and  defines  that  one  pre- 
eminent agency,  the  Church  of  the  Living 


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choose,  but  moving  steadily,  and  that  not  by  the  shaping  of  cir- 
cumstances, but  by  the  guiding  of  the  Holy  Ghost,  toward  that 
form  and  character  which,  having  once  taken  on,  it  has  now 
retained,  whatever  temporary  obscuration  of  its  primitive  char- 
acter or  degradation  of  its  high  purpose  may  have  befallen  it, 
for  well-nigh  twenty  centuries. 

And  therefore  we  are  here  to  disown  the  theory  that  the 
organic  form  of  Christianity,  as  the  Catholic  Church  holds  it  and 
has  perpetuated  it,  is  merely  the  development  and  outcome  of 
civil  and  secular  institutions,  amid  which  it  originally  found  itself, 
any  more  than  the  Atonement  on  Calvary  was  the  outcome  of 
the  Platonic  or  Aristotelian  philosophies.  Points  of  resemblance, 
points  of  contact,  points  of  identity,  even,  we  may  own,  here 
and  there,  it  may  be,  in  the  one  as  in  the  others;  but  we  are 
here  to-day,  if  I  at  all  understand  the  purpose  of  our  coming,  to 
affirm  that  yonder  volume  does  not  more  truly  declare  to  us 
the  means  of  our  salvation  than  it  declares  and  defines  that  one 
preeminent  agency,  the  Church  of  the  Living  God,  with  its  in- 
spired message  and  its  divinely  instituted  sacraments,  and  divinely 
appointed  threefold  ministry,  as  the  visible  agency  and  instru- 
ment by  which  that  salvation  is  to  be  made  known  to  men. 

And  here,  at  any  rate,  whatever  may  be  proper  elsewhere, 
we  are  not  called  upon  to  go  beyond  this.  How  truly  a  human 
body  may  be  so  designated  which  is  more  or  less  maimed  or 
mutilated  is  a  question  which  theology  may  not  find  it  easier  to 
answer  in  one  domain  than  science  in  another.  But  in  an  age 
when  there  is  so  much  invertebrate  belief,  and  when  the  tone 
of  mutual  complacency  is  so  great  that  one  man's  deliro  (I 
dream)  is  as  good  as  another  man's  credo  (I  believe),  it  is  as 
well  in  connection  with  such  an  occasion  as  this  to  understand 
the  ground  upon  which  we  stand,  and  the  point  from  which 
we  set  out.  The  cause  of  the  reunion  of  Christendom  will  be 
greatly  forwarded  by  the  kindly  temper  which  strives  to  under- 
stand, and  scorns  to  misrepresent  others ;  but  it  will  not  be  helped 
by  the  mistaken  amiability  which  seeks  to  misinterpret  or  con- 
sents to  misrepresent  ourselves. 

I  have  said  this  much,  and  have  endeavored  to  say  it  with 
utmost  plainness,  because,  unless  I  am  mistaken,  the  exigency 
of  the  hour  demands  it.  But  I  have  done  so  mainly  because  it 

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choose,  but  moving  steadily,  and  that  not  by  the  shaping  of  cir- 
cumstances, but  by  the  guiding  of  the  Holy  Ghost,  toward  that 
form  and  character  which,  having  once  taken  on,  it  has  now 
retained,  whatever  temporary  obscuration  of  its  primitive  char- 
acter or  degradation  of  its  high  purpose  may  have  befallen  it, 
for  well-nigh  twenty  centuries. 

And  therefore  we  are  here  to  disown  the  theory  that  the 
organic  form  of  Christianity,  as  the  Catholic  Church  holds  it  and 
has  perpetuated  it,  is  merely  the  development  and  outcome  of 
civil  and  secular  institutions,  amid  which  it  originally  found  itself, 
any  more  than  the  Atonement  on  Calvary  was  the  outcome  of 
the  Platonic  or  Aristotelian  philosophies.  Points  of  resemblance, 
points  of  contact,  points  of  identity,  even,  we  may  own,  here 
and  there,  it  may  be,  in  the  one  as  in  the  others;  but  we  are 
here  to-day,  if  I  at  all  understand  the  purpose  of  our  coming,  to 
affirm  that  yonder  volume  does  not  more  truly  declare  to  us 
the  means  of  our  salvation  than  it  declares  and  defines  that  one 
preeminent  agency,  the  Church  of  the  Living  God,  with  its  in- 
spired message  and  its  divinely  instituted  sacraments,  and  divinely 
appointed  threefold  ministry,  as  the  visible  agency  and  instru- 
ment by  which  that  salvation  is  to  be  made  known  to  men. 

And  here,  at  any  rate,  whatever  may  be  proper  elsewhere, 
we  are  not  called  upon  to  go  beyond  this.  How  truly  a  human 
body  may  be  so  designated  which  is  more  or  less  maimed  or 
mutilated  is  a  question  which  theology  may  not  find  it  easier  to 
answer  in  one  domain  than  science  in  another.  But  in  an  age 
when  there  is  so  much  invertebrate  belief,  and  when  the  tone 
of  mutual  complacency  is  so  great  that  one  man's  deliro  (I 
dream)  is  as  good  as  another  man's  credo  (I  believe),  it  is  as 
well  in  connection  with  such  an  occasion  as  this  to  understand 
the  ground  upon  which  we  stand,  and  the  point  from  which 
we  set  out.  The  cause  of  the  reunion  of  Christendom  will  be 

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choose,  but  moving  steadily,  and  that  not  by  the  shaping 
of  circumstances,  but  by  the  guiding  of  the  Holy  Ghost, 
toward  that  form  and  character  which,  having  once  taken 
on,  it  has  now  retained,  whatever  temporary  obscuration 
of  its  primitive  character  or  degradation  of  its  high  purpose 
may  have  befallen  it,  for  well-nigh  twenty  centuries. 

And  therefore  we  are  here  to  disown  the  theory  that  the 
organic  form  of  Christianity,  as  the  Catholic  Church  holds 
it  and  has  perpetuated  it,  is  merely  the  development  and 
outcome  of  civil  and  secular  institutions,  amid  which  it 
originally  found  itself,  any  more  than  the  Atonement  on 
Calvary  was  the  outcome  of  the  Platonic  or  Aristotelian 
philosophies.  Points  of  resemblance,  points  of  contact, 
points  of  identity,  even,  we  may  own,  here  and  there,  it 
may  be,  in  the  one  as  in  the  others  ;  but  we  are  here  to- 
day, if  I  at  all  understand  the  purpose  of  our  coming,  to 
affirm  that  yonder  volume  does  not  more  truly  declare  to 
us  the  means  of  our  salvation  than  it  declares  and  defines 
that  one  preeminent  agency,  the  Church  of  the  Living 
God,  with  its  inspired  message  and  its  divinely  instituted 
sacraments,  and  divinely  appointed  threefold  ministry,  as 
the  visible  agency  and  instrument  by  which  that  salvation 
is  to  be  made  known  to  men. 

And  here,  at  any  rate,  whatever  may  be  proper  else- 
where, we  are  not  called  upon  to  go  beyond  this.  How 
truly  a  human  body  may  be  so  designated  which  is  more 
or  less  maimed  or  mutilated  is  a  question  which  theology 
may  not  find  it  easier  to  answer  in  one  domain  than  science 
in  another.  But  in  an  age  when  there  is  so  much  inverte- 
brate belief,  and  when  the  tone  of  mutual  complacency  is 
so  great  that  one  man's  deliro  (I  dream)  is  as  good  as  an- 
other man's  credo  (I  believe),  it  is  as  well  in  connection 
with  such  an  occasion  as  this  to  understand  the  ground 
upon  which  we  stand,  and  the  point  from  which  we  set 
out.  The  cause  of  the  reunion  of  Christendom  will  be 

[54] 


n-Pt.  Cheltenham  solid]     3Tf>e   ©limpton   J3r£0!8  [346  words,  35  lines 


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choose,  but  moving  steadily,  and  that  not  by  the  shaping 
of  circumstances,  but  by  the  guiding  of  the  Holy  Ghost, 
toward  that  form  and  character  which,  having  once  taken 
on,  it  has  now  retained,  whatever  temporary  obscuration 
of  its  primitive  character  or  degradation  of  its  high  purpose 
may  have  befallen  it,  for  well-nigh  twenty  centuries. 

And  therefore  we  are  here  to  disown  the  theory  that  the 
organic  form  of  Christianity,  as  the  Catholic  Church  holds 
it  and  has  perpetuated  it,  is  merely  the  development  and 
outcome  of  civil  and  secular  institutions,  amid  which  it 
originally  found  itself,  any  more  than  the  Atonement  on 
Calvary  was  the  outcome  of  the  Platonic  or  Aristotelian 
philosophies.  Points  of  resemblance,  points  of  contact, 
points  of  identity,  even,  we  may  own,  here  and  there,  it 
may  be,  in  the  one  as  in  the  others;  but  we  are  here  to- 
day, if  I  at  all  understand  the  purpose  of  our  coming,  to 
affirm  that  yonder  volume  does  not  more  truly  declare  to 
us  the  means  of  our  salvation  than  it  declares  and  defines 
that  one  preeminent  agency,  the  Church  of  the  Living 
God,  with  its  inspired  message  and  its  divinely  instituted 
sacraments,  and  divinely  appointed  threefold  ministry,  as 
the  visible  agency  and  instrument  by  which  that  salvation 
is  to  be  made  known  to  men. 

And  here,  at  any  rate,  whatever  may  be  proper  else- 
where, we  are  not  called  upon  to  go  beyond  this.  How 
truly  a  human  body  may  be  so  designated  which  is  more 
or  less  maimed  or  mutilated  is  a  question  which  theology 
may  not  find  it  easier  to  answer  in  one  domain  than  science 
in  another.  But  in  an  age  when  there  is  so  much  inverte- 
brate belief,  and  when  the  tone  of  mutual  complacency  is 

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choose,  but  moving  steadily,  and  that  ftot  by  the  shaping 
of  circumstances,  but  by  the  guiding  of  the  Holy  Ghost, 
toward  that  form  and  character  which,  having  once 
taken  on,  it  has  now  retained,  whatever  temporary  ob- 
scuration of  its  primitive  character  or  degradation  of  its 
high  purpose  may  have  befallen  it,  for  well-nigh  twenty 
centuries. 

And  therefore  we  are  here  to  disown  the  theory 
that  the  organic  form  of  Christianity,  as  the  Catholic 
Church  holds  it  and  has  perpetuated  it,  is  merely  the 
development  and  outcome  of  civil  and  secular  institu- 
tions, amid  which  it  originally  found  itself,  any  more 
than  the  Atonement  on  Calvary  was  the  outcome  of 
the  Platonic  or  Aristotelian  philosophies.  Points  of  re- 
semblance, points  of  contact,  points  of  identity,  even, 
we  may  own,  here  and  there,  it  may  be,  in  the  one  as 
in  the  others  ;  but  we  are  here  to-day,  if  I  at  all  under- 
stand the  purpose  of  our  coming,  to  affirm  that  yonder 
volume  does  not  more  truly  declare  to  us  the  means  of 
our  salvation  than  it  declares  and  defines  that  one  pre- 
eminent agency,  the  Church  of  the  Living  God,  with 
its  inspired  message  and  its  divinely  instituted  sacra- 
ments, and  divinely  appointed  threefold  ministry,  as  the 
visible  agency  and  instrument  by  which  that  salvation 
is  to  be  made  known  to  men. 

And  here,  at  any  rate,  whatever  may  be  proper 
elsewhere,  we  are  not  called  upon  to  go  beyond  this. 
How  truly  a  human  body  may  be  so  designated  which 
is  more  or  less  maimed  or  mutilated  is  a  question  which 
theology  may  not  find  it  easier  to  answer  in  one  domain 
than  science  in  another.  But  in  an  age  when  there  is 
so  much  invertebrate  belief,  and  when  the  tone  of  mu- 

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choose,  but  moving  steadily,  and  that  not  by  the  shaping 
of  circumstances,  but  by  the  guiding  of  the  Holy  Ghost, 
toward  that  form  and  character  which,  having  once 
taken  on,  it  has  now  retained,  whatever  temporary  ob- 
scuration of  its  primitive  character  or  degradation  of  its 
high  purpose  may  have  befallen  it,  for  well-nigh  twenty 
centuries. 

And  therefore  we  are  here  to  disown  the  theory 
that  the  organic  form  of  Christianity,  as  the  Catholic 
Church  holds  it  and  has  perpetuated  it,  is  merely  the 
development  and  outcome  of  civil  and  secular  institu- 
tions, amid  which  it  originally  found  itself,  any  more 
than  the  Atonement  on  Calvary  was  the  outcome  of 
the  Platonic  or  Aristotelian  philosophies.  Points  of  re- 
semblance, points  of  contact,  points  of  identity,  even, 
we  may  own,  here  and  there,  it  may  be,  in  the  one  as 
in  the  others;  but  we  are  here  to-day,  if  I  at  all  under- 
stand the  purpose  of  our  coming,  to  affirm  that  yonder 
volume  does  not  more  truly  declare  to  us  the  means  of 
our  salvation  than  it  declares  and  defines  that  one  pre- 
eminent agency,  the  Church  of  the  Living  God,  with 
its  inspired  message  and  its  divinely  instituted  sacra- 
ments, and  divinely  appointed  threefold  ministry,  as  the 
visible  agency  and  instrument  by  which  that  salvation 
is  to  be  made  known  to  men. 

And  here,  at  any  rate,  whatever  may  be  proper 
elsewhere,  we  are  not  called  upon  to  go  beyond  this. 
How  truly  a  human  body  may  be  so  designated  which 

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Boston,  July  30,  1904. 
Dear  Sir:- 

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effectiveness  of  the  type  for  book 
purposes.   The  number  of  lines  and 
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